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Re:Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio ... by angry_octet on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:31AM (#50323194)
These attacks are all incredibly impractical and pointless, the bit rate under the most charitable assumptions is pathetically low. But even more, it ignores the most significant risk, which is people. People who can be tricked and subverted, and people systems that can be influenced to become misaligned, or which have procedural holes.

It's much easier to subvert the supply chain for the secure hardware or subvert the authorised system transfers.

Re:Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio ... by mofeien on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:40PM (#50329614)
1kB/s is pathetically low? You can exfiltrate a root CA private key that is valid for a decade in 3-4 s with that.

And these surprising attack vectors demonstrate that there will always be another hole in your protection. Even if you account for people-bed attacks, and air-gap your system better, there is always something else you didn't think of yet.

Re:Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio ... by angry_octet on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:25AM (#50335067)
None of these get even 1 bit/s under real conditions. It's a clown car concept as shown.