Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter?

Re:Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter? by ano-ther on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:43AM (#41765950)

Sure, if you solder an antenna to your memory first :-)

But good and thorough write-up about how to actually exploit such a glitch.

And you could also use the cigarette lighter for hanging out at the data center back door and wait until the admin comes for a smoke.

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Re:Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter? by Retr0id on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:45AM (#41765971)

> This should theoretically work with bit-flips in any bit position between 29 [...] and 12 [...] Therefore, soldering the antenna wire perhaps isn't totally necessary, if you can generate strong enough electromagnetic interference

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Re:Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter? by abound on Monday October 07, 2024 @12:26PM (#41767670)

Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but you need not only "strong" but "highly directed" electromagnetic interference. Each of those pins is ~0.5mm, flipping a single bit "wirelessly" is probably impossible, as your inference will cause issues in many more places than just your target.

Maybe that unlocks different and exciting hacks, maybe it just melts your machine.

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Re:Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter? by hardburn on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:49AM (#41766003)

Down in the "practical use" section, one use case is bypassing copy protection on consoles.

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