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There's an interesting little paper 'Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs' where they use a function generator to find resonant frequencies which cause i
by anfractuosity 4y ago
There's an interesting little paper 'Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs' where they use a function generator to find resonant frequencies which cause issues with spinning disks
- segfaultbuserr 4y agoThere's also a paper Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks that Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone. An APT attacker can potentially reflash the firmware on an HDD and using it as a microphone for eavesdropping. https://andrewkwong.org/docs/Kwong-HDDphone-IEEE-SP-2019.pdf https://andrewkwong.org/docs/Kwong-HDDphone-IEEE-SP-2019.pdf
- jmarneweck 4y agoJanet Jackson's song Rhythm Nation caused certain 5400 rpm HDD's in laptops to crash: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...