jumperalex

@jumperalex@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. I had a rental condo in Vegas I sold after 20 years because I read the writing on the wall. And Vegas is doing an amazing job of preparing for water issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, SO WHAT FUCK OFF COP, INSULTS AREN’T ILLEGAL!!!

  Fixed that for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  good point about the room.

  as for an installed keylogger, there are organizations that will inspect for that and catch it. My point is this is a way to get an actually unmolested USB device into play.

  But I hear you, this isn’t likely an ideal option right now, but it is an option for maybe some niche case. And these are early days, put enough funding behind it and it might become more viable. Or not. Mostly I’m just offering the thought that there ARE use cases if someone puts even a moment’s creative thought into trade craft and the problems it might solve like breaking the air gap, emplacement, avoiding detection, and data exfil. Each of those are problems to be solved at various levels of difficulty depending on the exact target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm not totally. A bad actor could record the keyboard and then figure out a way to get it installed. Either through a logistics attack (not everyone maintains a secure supply chain), or an insider threat installing it. Everyone’s trained not to allow thumb drives and the like. But a 100% completely unaltered bog standard keyboard brought into a building is probably easier, and for sure less suspicious if you get caught.

  Sure you might say, “but if you have an insider you’ve already lost” to which I say, your insider is at risk if they do certain things. But once this keyboard is installed, their own detection risk is less.

  Now the question is, how far away can the mic be? Because that’s gonna be suspicious AF getting that installed. BUT!!! this is still a great way to break the air gap.