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9 foot range, 26 feet if you have a hard drive with a USB cable plugged in. Doesn't work with thumbdrives. More importantly, the airgapped computer needs to b
by anonbanker 10y ago
9 foot range, 26 feet if you have a hard drive with a USB cable plugged in.
Doesn't work with thumbdrives.
More importantly, the airgapped computer needs to be already compromised before the attack can occur, and you must have write access to the drive.
While they show an Ubuntu machine next to the compromised machine, there is no signs that the malware works under ubuntu.
Neat research, but limited utility.
- xigency 10y agoAlso, the transfer rate is 80 bytes per second.
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- AstralStorm 10y agoPlenty for sending out a password. For extra ownage, exploit the OHCI DMA to get memory access to anything. Heck, it is easier to just connect a prepared radio with hardware exploit.
- xigency 10y agoRight, but you won't be pulling down classified PDF's in any reasonable time. If you have access to the machine to run code, I don't see why you need "a password" particularly. I thought the purpose was extracting information.
- donutz 10y agoThat's almost a megabyte per day, more with compression.
- mikeash 10y agoThat's over twice as fast as my first modem was. Plenty of speed to get sensitive information out.
- manarth 10y ago> Doesn't work with thumbdrives One of the comments suggested "Thumbdrives probably aren't a risk (probably) since the circuits involved are small", but the article itself says that they do work: "USBee offers ranges of about nine feet when data is beamed over a small thumb drive"