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Ohhh I misunderstood; I thought they were stealing data by simply observing the blinking LED, not that they had infiltrated the computer and were controlling th
by jbob2000 6y ago
Ohhh I misunderstood; I thought they were stealing data by simply observing the blinking LED, not that they had infiltrated the computer and were controlling the LED.
- na85 6y agoThe term "exfiltrate" implies that the data is being "pushed" or otherwise sent outward from the machine, as opposed to being harvested from the outside.
- fbi-director 6y agoThank you, because you wrote this, I too now understand what they meant. My train of thought was apparently on the same track as yours!
- hutzlibu 6y agoAllmost (or all?) of those attacks are only possible, if the target computer is infected. And the scenario is that the virus wants to send data out, to a nearby decice which is also infected.
- skykooler 6y agoWhich is why this is "exfiltration", not "infiltration".