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Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?

submitted by 1317+(OP) on 2024-10-07 13:20:19 | 681 points 150 comments
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30. wgrove+hc[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-07 14:41:18
>>devmor+y9
Yup - the first few minutes of one of Technology Connections' videos on electromechanical pinball machines shows this mechanism in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo

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39. jcrash+gk[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-07 15:26:20
>>IWeldM+Yc
> pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head

I think they still use these in bars

https://barsupplies.com/collections/glass-washers

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59. JamesS+MC[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-07 16:59:55
>>everfo+5l
Its been a long time since I worked in a bar, but in the front-of-house we used a three-sink station where the sinks were: soap, water, sanitizing-solution. Then you sit the glasses to drip-dry.

Actually here is a link explaining it: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/article/620/three-compartme...

60. _tramp+oD[view] [source] 2024-10-07 17:02:10
>>1317+(OP)
2 days ago

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70. pvitz+DR[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-07 18:09:34
>>mmsc+NF
Do you mean nand2tetris? https://www.nand2tetris.org/course
74. antavi+e21[view] [source] 2024-10-07 19:03:25
>>1317+(OP)
I thought this was about getting the root password by burning the sysadmin with a cigarette lighter (https://xkcd.com/538/)
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79. j0hnyl+v91[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-07 19:45:12
>>intoth+k4
I remember reading about this in this book, about the hacker named Pengo who was known for adding credits to arcade games in the same manner.

https://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Fr...

85. _ache_+8e1[view] [source] 2024-10-07 20:09:46
>>1317+(OP)
I followed him on mastodon, the article is cool too. On Mastodon, there is a video of the root access where one can see the screen.

https://mastodon.xyz/@retr0id@retr0.id/113252910481164528

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106. deepsp+EE1[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-07 23:08:09
>>zephyr+y3
Well, the soldering iron I use most often has modifiable firmware running on a RISC-V SOC. (https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...) Who knew that melting lead could be that complicated. So I would totally believe an article about rooting a lighter.
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114. i4k+cP1[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-08 00:50:54
>>ruslan+vs1
It depends on the target hardware.

- https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/tree/main/M...

- https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/tree/main/L...

- https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/tree/main/P...

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132. brainb+rM2[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-08 12:04:24
>>beAbU+Ge2
Reminds me of the story of the kids in Ethiopian village that were given tablets by One Laptop Per Child. The kids had figured out how to turn it on within minutes, in five days they were using 47 apps per child, in two weeks they were singing the English alphabet, and then within five months they had hacked Android. https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/01/kids_learn_hacking_an...
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137. tucnak+v13[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-10-08 13:47:40
>>wang_l+aF1
Unless the hardware employs some variant of encrypted RAM, see cool paper by the NSA from a few months back that includes benchmarks in FPGA and silicon https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1240
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