Re: Hackers hope to democratize laser-based processor hacking for $500

On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 01:31:00 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 5/08/2024 2:56 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sun, 4 Aug 2024 14:23:35 -0400) it happened "Edward Rawde"
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On Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:05:37 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:
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Hackers hope to democratize laser-based processor hacking -
a $500 RayV Lite relies on 3D printing, a laser pen, and a Raspberry Pi
to bring costs down:
  https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-hope-

to-democratize-laser-based-processor-hacking-dollar500-rayv-lite-relies-
on-3d-printing-a-laser-pen-and-a-raspberry-pi-to-bring-costs-down#main

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A fairly low quality article if you ask me.
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Nothing is safe:-)
Seems a cool way to bypass security stuff.
Gotta try my laser on a working chip.

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If you can get close enough to get sufficient physical access.
Not a worry to most of us.

 
I remember my hacking days, pay-TV cards was the thing those days,
getting the encryption algo used was the target.
Some country with the right equipment (or spies?) got it... And published it,
on Usenet yes.
That is how I started with Microchip PICs, those were in the cards.
Then somebody (was it me? ;-) ) made a server that decoded for everybody in real time so you
no longer needed the cards, just got the (ever changing key) from that server.
Those guys got arrested ...
All Linux and open source.
alt.satellite.tv.europe  ..
 
Nothing is safe ..
 
There are more fun things, I was reading somewhere yesterday that
for secret communication in UK submarines the company that designed the system
was outsourcing coding to Russia or Belarus.., were the coders were.
Now that is hard to believe, but...
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/02/britains-nuclear-submarine-software-designed-russia-belarus/
 
found via rt.com, do not normally read the telegraph
Maybe I should...
Could also be just creating commie fear, but still..
   https://www.rt.com/news/602089-uk-submarines-russian-software/
if blocked try
  89.191.237.192
There is more good info there

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Probably not. The Daily Telegraph is about as closely connected to
reality as Russia Today.
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Seems all is set up by that US military industrial complex and its puppets for an invasion into Iran,
and a WW3.

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Why on earth would the US want to invade Iran? The ayatollahs of Iran
are wrecking their country quite as effectively as the religious right
is wrecking America.
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What choice does US have? Its bankrupt, its IQ is single digits,
an now like 'enlist everybody to serve Uncle Sam'
enlist everybody to serve Chameleon Harassment
Auntie Kamala ?
 
Well what is left will radiate..

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Probably not. Getting a nuclear weapon to actually explode needs more
than a single digit IQ.
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The Americans rely on John Larkin's laser timing hardware for their
Nuclear Ignition Facility.
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The real tragedy is that the 192 big lasers are modulated in quads,
groups of four, so we only got to sell 48 modulator chassis, plus some
spares.