Submitted 5 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.techspot.com/news/105078-hacker-shows-how-cigarette-lighter-can-grant-you.html
Buchanan walks through his process of experimenting with low-cost fault-injection attacks as an alternative when typical software bugs aren’t available to exploit.
That is impressive. However, if you have physical access to the RAM, you can probably also just pop in a live USB, chroot into the system and do whatever you want. Regardless, this injection was interesting and impressive. Hats off to a clever hacker like that.
ah i remember glitching phonebooths that way…good ol’ times
The modder in the article mentioned that the method could be used to break copyright protections on game consoles, can someone explain that?
I assume this doesn’t apply to consoles or harware that verify keys over the network, since the decryption key isn’t stored on the device itself? This is more for things like Blu-ray players or consoles that read physical media, right?
I’m a hobbyist so sorry if that’s a dumb question
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
If you have physical access, then you have total access.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Not if the storage is encrypted. That’s why vulnerabilities in operating systems/kernel are so impactful, as they can bypass that encryption.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Well no, if the device is powered off you need to brute force the encryption which will take a very long time.
However, if the device is booted you can just read from ram.