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Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
With Only a Cigarette Lighter? By David Buchanan, 7th October 2024 Spoiler alert: Yes. the elite hacking tool they don't want you to know you already own Before you can write an exploit, you need a bug.
The resistor (which might be entirely unnecessary) is just there to make sure that the interference isn't so great as to disturb normal operation of the memory—I only want glitches to happen on-demand, not all the time. I found that clicking a regular piezo-electric lighter (no inductor coils needed) in the vicinity of the antenna wire was enough to reliably induce memory errors, shown here under memtest. We don't have much control over when we inject the fault (to the resolution of my finger's reaction speed), but whenever it happens we can be fairly certain it will always flip the same bit of any particular 64-bit read or write.
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