At least these couldn’t be hacked from half a world away!

[myra@mastodon.green]

@stux

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@stux And you never, ever, saw one of those boxes without both keys still in the lock...

[musing_sys@social.fringesec.ca]

@stux Who the hell loaded this thing with the disk sliders up?

[shuro@friends.deko.cloud]

@stux bitrot was real though.

Also I remember copying Duke Nukem from my friend. He lived one hour tram ride away and the game took 13 of them. I ended up going twice as the first time a few of floppies failed to read.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@stux honestly, converting a cybersecurity problem into a physical security problem is a big win. It’s less convenient, but that’s frequently a worthwhile trade.

[wandrecanada@mastodon.social]

@stux The best hacking tools were a good pair of cross trainers

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@stux I had many variants over them And that's also for *modern* 3.5" floppies!

[baardhaveland@snabelen.no]

@musing_sys @stux

And no labels... Good luck locating the right one!

[leeloo@chaosfem.tw]

@darkling @stux
Not true. None of mine have the keys in the lock. In fact, I have no idea where the keys are.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@darkling @stux
Except I took the locks off in case the keys were lost.
No labels and wrong way up. Obviously a badly done advert.

[bit@ohai.social]

@stux Gosh, I had one of those long ago. I was so proud of myself when I found I could pick the lock with a number of utensils, a screwdriver, a pocket knife, scissors. That pride lasted until I figured out I could just detach and lift the back hinge.

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@stux
And if it got buried under a bunch of books and paperwork only the people who new “where it *was*” could access it

[eest9@chaos.social]

@stux Ever since I set in a Talk were people claimed to have hacked a computer with an air gap, because they were able to manipulate a peripheral scanner/printer via fucking lasers, I don't trust anything anymore!

And while I don't find the original talk, I found some papers with (on a conceptional level) similar attacks: https://arxiv.org/html/2409.02292v1

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@stux this box contains no more than 144 Mb of data.You have nowadays thousand of these boxes in a smartphone. Memory was precious at the time and was carefully allocated by the user.