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Smart Cards Vulnerable to Photo-Flash Attacks?
belphegor writes "Researchers at the University of Cambridge have
found a way to use a camera flash and microscope to extract data from smart cards. " Notable because its apparently relatively
simple to do and really throws a monkey wrench into a variety of businesses
that use smart cards to store important data.
"Alex Giakoumis... said his company had built defensive measures into its products that would make them invulnerable to such an attack. However, he said he was unwilling to be specific about the nature of the security system."
However, it is speculated that the card contains material that can obscure the flash, literally achieving "security through obscurity."
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All they need to do is intertwine single wall carbon based nano tubes throughout the memory. When the camera flash hits the memory, the memory will self destruct.
There is no
"We used duct tape to fix the photoflash lamp on the video port of a Wentworth Labs MP-901 manual probing station," they wrote in their paper.
No matter how high tech, there's no experiment that can't be improved with duct tape
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Yeah, because I have this pressurised N2 atmosphere sitting over here in my basement...
A team of researchers from I.B.M.'s Thomas J. Watson Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., said they would present a report at the conference based on their discovery ...
Dmitri called. He said if you see any guys in cheap suits applauding on stage right, exit stage left.
From what little I know, any criminal who has been to jail has had access to a "manual probing station". IANAC (I Am Not A Criminal), but I think it's located in the showers.
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I tried building that. I'm 70% of the way there.