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Your HDD as an accidental microphone
Oliver Davis
Jeremiah Johnson
It's a magnetic tape disc, and just like the fucking ceramics of 7000 years ago, which were made by rotation, they capture sound.
That's obvious.
Blake Diaz
Everything captures sound, yet this experiment also demonstrates that the resonating sound causes the disc to be unreadable and eventually the OS disconnects it.
Jaxon Diaz
I want to see quality of the recordings.
Carson Perez
I would too. The waveform didn't look like it gave much information away. It's still pretty interesting.
Hudson Baker
Glow in the dark agencies have probably known about this for decades.
Cameron Gutierrez
true
Austin Anderson
(((You))) probably use this to identify hard drives which have had all identification removed from them. Simple solution is replace the platter head when you remove identification from a drive. Well maybe not that simple.
Jeremiah Kelly
is ssd confirmed now for less cia niggers than hdd?
Ryan Harris
Hell no. SSD's by default have the "S.M.A.R.T" backdoors. Along with the firmware backdoors if you have access to the pci-e space to flash it. Atleast with older HDD's you can avoid such things.
Luis Hall
Ramdisk is what you want.
- io speed faster than SSD
- data destruction more reliable than HDD
Jacob Stewart
S.M.A.R.T. is as old as SATA. What da fuk HDD do you use that doesn't have this?
Chase Turner
PDF slides mention something about using this in remote cloud environment, but data centers have so much noise, staff is forced to wear ear protection. Good luck recording anything useful there.
Elijah Parker
SSD's come with proprietary firmware running on low power CPUs that handle all the trickery it takes to fool windows into using the disc. The filesystem you choose to run in software on your OS is imitated on the drive, but the firmware uses a different drive-dependent filesystem that can access over provisioned areas as well as the cache. FOSS SSDs are made by that one company in Worst Korea and are expensive, but modular. HDD can be less CIA, but it usually doesn't matter since storage isn't the biggest attack surface.
lol
Colton Cox
The noise doesn't matter. It's better to use this as a method of getting a certain oscilation of noise to identify the drive like a UUID. As a malware vector or spying vector it's implausable without much effort.
But this is easly gotten around by changing the drive physically after you purchase it like a single platter being replaced.
Nicholas Peterson
judging by video youtube.com
I am not familiar with nitty-gritty details, how do syscalls work over the network?
Will secure NAS with massive raid and lots of caching placed in soundproof room save me?
Jose Bennett
No I was thinking if someone got physical access you could sound test it for unique identification. Kinda like n-s-yayyy-kun admited here . But something to track hard drives with identification removed as mentioned here
You're safe from network attack using your hardrive to listen to you for now?
Logan Watson
But think of the tracking. What if someone deleted the data on the drive before you could backdoor/get to it and it was unidentifiable. You could sound test it for a UUID from the factory if n-s-yayyy-kun. I have no doubt (((they))) already do such things.
Adam Diaz
S.M.A.R.T. was even available on many IDE drives. Please tell me you're larping and not using some 800MB drive from the 90's.
Zachary Garcia
You can't just use one btw. You need atleast four or so unless you want to airgap a compromised drive across everytime to access pictures and shit.
Matthew Brown
user...
Sebastian Kelly
(You) don't understand what that picture of why not both meant, did (you)?
Jordan Jackson
at least it isn't as bad as electromagnetic leaks and TEMPEST vulnerabilites
Asher Jenkins
Tempest encompasses shit like this. It's not squarely aimed at unintentional RF transmissions.
Mason Thompson
Xavier Turner
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Robert Richardson
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Cameron Johnson
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David Robinson
ayy lmao
Adrian Hill
Wasnt this proven to be a load of shit
Cameron Williams
what did the chans do to me
Adam Lewis
I remember using one back in the 90's, and it had SMART.
Tyler Price
All storage is magnetic you egg
Mason Green
It sounds like bullshit to me but I have no proof and I've seen these 1337 researchers do some really crazy wizardry