Brutkey

Matthew Garrett
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

For Reasons that I cannot discuss I had the opportunity some years ago to review the security of some source code that was used in both an internet access device and also a crewed spacecraft and discovered a (minor) flaw that based on the memory layout of the device located on Earth was unexploitable but could have been exploited if you had the ability to rewrite flash on a device in orbit and well that feels like a conversation about whether Bond movies are realistic threat models

Cassandra is only carbon now
@xgranade@wandering.shop

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer I mean, my partner came up with a novel attack that relied on pushing 60W of laser power down a telecom fiber, which feels very Bond villainous.

Ben Aveling
@BenAveling@infosec.exchange

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @xgranade@wandering.shop I would expect a DoS to result. But if you’re in a position to do that, you’re already creating a DoS, no?