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There are all sorts of crazy ways of getting data out of even air-gapped machines, providing you are willing to accept extremely low data rates to overcome atte

There are all sorts of crazy ways of getting data out of even air-gapped machines, providing you are willing to accept extremely low data rates to overcome attenuation. Even with million-to-one signal-to-noise ratio, you can get significant amounts of key data out in a few weeks. Jiggling disk heads, modulating fan rates, increasing and decreasing power draw... all are potential information leaks.

ta20240528 1y ago
> There are all sorts of crazy ways of getting data out of even air-gapped machines. Chelsea Manning apparently did it by walking in and out of the facility with a CD marked 'Lady Gaga'. Repeatedly https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/how-us-embassy-cables-leaked https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/how-us-embassy...