/g/ - this guy was telling me about an old attack devise - Technology

Anonymous

09/18/24(Wed)18:47:50 No.102448839

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this guy was telling me about an old attack devised by or used by some programmer or engineer at Oracle or Sun wherein the electrical connection to your PC's power supply would be subtly modified upstream somewhere to damage your processor by remotely undervolting it or orchestrating repeated brownouts.
is this just a bunch of gobbledigook or was there a kernel of credibility to this idea

Anonymous
09/18/24(Wed)18:50:32 No.102448865

Anonymous 09/18/24(Wed)18:50:32 No.102448865

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yeah if you are tethered at all to a power company you are at their whim. Doesn't everyone know this already?

Anonymous
09/18/24(Wed)18:51:28 No.102448878

Anonymous 09/18/24(Wed)18:51:28 No.102448878

>>102448839
>gobbledigook
cool it with the racism bro

Anonymous
09/18/24(Wed)18:52:03 No.102448885

Anonymous 09/18/24(Wed)18:52:03 No.102448885

>>102448839
Do you understand how power supplies work, son?

Anonymous
09/18/24(Wed)18:55:05 No.102448917

Anonymous 09/18/24(Wed)18:55:05 No.102448917

>>102448885
not really but they're supposed to be designed with fault tolerance for that kind of thing, right? seems like a reductive explanation