My coworker told me that the CIA and FBI have the tech to steal data from mechanical drives just by listening the room they run.
Is he right Jow Forums?
My coworker told me that the CIA and FBI have the tech to steal data from mechanical drives just by listening the room...
Austin Martinez
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Austin Barnes
...no.
the magnetism on the platter isn't going to cause a vibration detectable over all of the spinning.
Carter Hill
they can read audio "recorded" on things like a bag of chips... they can read your keystrokes by vibrations with a device sitting on/under your desk
Colton King
if by room you mean LAN then yes
Camden Martinez
Isaac Wright
Stop scaring me brah
Angel Nelson
>Not using a mil-std-810 rated pc without fans.
Easton Edwards
Charles Rogers
>Not piping your fan voltages trough a stream cipher.
Tyler Nguyen
>He doesn't have 2TB of ECC RAM super glued into their sockets
>He doesn't use Tails loaded from disc into a RAM disk that automatically wipes itself every power down.
It's like you don't even want to be secure
Ian Gutierrez
read up about side-channel attacks. they're real.
Dylan Harris
Jose Stewart
No but they have it for keyboards with your laptop microphone.
It's enough to lower cryptography algorithm computing time to breakable level.
Kevin Moore
I've heard something similar from my cryptography professor back in college
guy was a massive nutjob though so I didn't pay much attention to anything he was ranting on outside the curriculum lol
Carter Lewis
Mason Peterson
This is true
I can so imagine this crypro-nutjob PHD. ranting about the CIA listening in on his hdd motor sound.
Gavin Bennett
I have no doubt that they have some sneaky-creative spying/surveillance tech but getting data from mechanical drive sound is downright impossible.
Nolan Johnson
>downright impossible
Good goy. Never mention
>DiskFiltration: Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Covert Hard Drive Noise
Gabriel Ross
>Hard drive noise
>Get an SSD, Fanless PSU, passive CPU and GPU, no case fans.
YOUR MOVE LAWMAN
Jayden Lewis
>mechanical drive
>SSD
what did he mean by this?
Easton Jackson
Ohh but that is different. That requires the computer to be compromised, in that case it is perfectly possible no problem.
Ayden Roberts
This assumes that someone has manually installed the malware that "transmits" the data using the fan speed. Hell, it might just as well blink the HDD access LED at that point. If the air gapped PC is physically secure, it's safe.
Christian Russell
>If the air gapped PC is physically secure
it never is tho
Ian Richardson
Van eck phreaking
Aaron Cox
>XxxSmokeBluntz69xxX's fans just turned on.
>They're going fast
>We have determined he is carrying out a zero day attack on Google while taking down all of the Emergency systems in New Jersey.
Jack Nelson
What do we publicly know of magnetism?
Sebastian Russell
If this is possible it's something that would require setting up a detection system near your computer, in which case you could take sensitive communications elsewhere and do them with a burner phone or, preferably, in person.
Until the glowniggers install this shit in every computer and mandate it in law.
Adam Reyes
they'd more likely be able to steal the data as it's being read from the drive.
It's already possible to look at someone's monitor thorugh an antenna if they have non-shielded cables
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Luke Sanchez
It's been proven to be possible to break encryption by literally listening to the CPU working so who are you or I to say they can't read data off a hard drive by it's vibrations or sounds?
Jeremiah Mitchell
Why would the FBI or CIA care about my data? It's 40% porn and 50% anime