Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 5 weeks agoIf y9ou are close enough to a system of importance that you can spray it, you are close enough to compromise it in countless other ways.
This is just one of many physical access attacks. Just like “you could take a hammer to it”
Like, I know people want to think this is some Ocean’s Eleven heist waiting to happen. It isn’t. At best it is an episode of Burn Notice where Michael has to rapidly improvise an escape where his CIA handler of the week already refused to give him something much more useful.
flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Just because you can take a hammer to it doesn’t mean that’s the best solution
In the right situation I imagine it could be a useful tool, much more subtle than just smashing the thing, less time consuming than taking it apart