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Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

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by HeliumHydride

2 days ago

| 5 comments

| da.vidbuchanan.co.uk

| HN

56 minutes ago

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Yes. We do this in Australia, around the bars and pubs getting a root with only a cigarette lighter is a classic move.

karmakurtisaani

44 minutes ago

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I feel like getting root privileges means something else in Australia.

38 minutes ago

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Still only a third of the full wombat trifecta.

2 hours ago

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> Finally, I'd like to thank JEDEC for paywalling all of the specification documents that were relevant to conducting this research.

b00ty4breakfast

1 hour ago

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my prediction before reading is that they're using the piezo sparker to beat the DUT over the head with a big EMF spike

Edit: Nailed it!

47 minutes ago

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I thought they were going to just heat a chip to increase the overall error rate

29 minutes ago

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Be it eletric or thermal, i came here for fried hardware and left disappointed. Now i have to wrangle my curiosity to what happens when you lighter-spark a usb port for the rest of the day.

1 hour ago

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Uh... yeah.

Just hold the sysadmins hand over the lighter until they tell you the password.

Never forget the easy way in ... the humans.

1 hour ago

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Yeah but can you light a cigarette with only a laptop? Checkmate atheists! /s

55 minutes ago

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If it's intel, you can fry an egg for sure.