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Y_Yyesterday at 4:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

just fan noise?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05915

Any signal that you can modulate can be an exfiltration channel, and fan noise is no different.


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overfeedyesterday at 7:04 PM

> Any signal that you can modulate can be an exfiltration channel, and fan noise is no different.

This KVM has HDMI input and can directly emulate USB mass storage; fan-modulation is the lowest-bandwidth (side-)channel available to the attackers.

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ndsipa_pomuyesterday at 4:29 PM

I wonder if that's feasible in a room filled with many servers and fans going?

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