Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

5 comments

• b00ty4breakfast 2 hours ago
  my prediction before reading is that they're using the piezo sparker to beat the DUT over the head with a big EMF spike

  Edit: Nailed it!

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  • grufkork 1 hour ago
    I thought they were going to just heat a chip to increase the overall error rate
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    • throwawayqqq11 1 hour ago
      Be it eletric or thermal, i came here for fried hardware and left disappointed. Now i have to wrangle my curiosity to what happens when you lighter-spark a usb port for the rest of the day.
• rkagerer 3 hours ago
  > Finally, I'd like to thank JEDEC for paywalling all of the specification documents that were relevant to conducting this research.
• ted_dunning 2 hours ago
  Uh... yeah.

  Just hold the sysadmins hand over the lighter until they tell you the password.

  Never forget the easy way in ... the humans.
• slj 1 hour ago
  Yes. We do this in Australia, around the bars and pubs getting a root with only a cigarette lighter is a classic move.
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  • karmakurtisaani 1 hour ago
    I feel like getting root privileges means something else in Australia.
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    • defrost 1 hour ago
      Still only a third of the full wombat trifecta.
  • CTOSian 46 minutes ago
    also free arcade credits :}
• haunter 2 hours ago
  Yeah but can you light a cigarette with only a laptop? Checkmate atheists! /s
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  • mirekrusin 1 hour ago
    If it's intel, you can fry an egg for sure.
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    • LoganDark 10 minutes ago
      The ol' Black MacBook Cooktop...