Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you are in a position where you can dump random gases into the air supply to the degree it impacts these devices then they are likely compromised in other ways as well.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know about that. It seemed to have a pretty rapid impact on the phone in that video, and it’s not like those are exactly open. And they weren’t pressurizing it.

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    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Helium is tiny, and will diffuse though pretty much anything other than continuous welded metal pipe very very quickly. The elastomer seals on a phone would slow it down slightly, but the article’s from 2018, before so many phones were watertight. I remember my old iPhone had a little piezo cooling fan in one of the grates on the bottom, so helium would have no trouble at all.

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  • flashgnash@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t necessarily need to put it into the air supply, could just bathe the specific device you want disabled in helium from a deodorant can or something

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is helium used in deodorants these days?

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      • flashgnash@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not that I know of, I meant it could be put in a pressurised spray bottle, for example a deodorant can

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you are close enough to spray a device you are close enough to just steal it. Or spray the owner.

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      • flashgnash@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If it’s bolted to a wall and unattended neither of those things are an option

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  • xor@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a very small percentage of helium will disable the phone

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• 4th_Times_A_Charm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lock picking lawyer gonna have to get on this

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