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Smart Cards Vulnerable to Photo-Flash Attacks?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-an-issue dept.

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.

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  1. Easy solution: Nanotubes by MontyP · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. The handyman's secret weapon by gambit3 · · Score: 4, Funny


    "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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  3. Re:They should have used the iButton by arkanes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, because I have this pressurised N2 atmosphere sitting over here in my basement...

  4. it's sad this springs to mind. by BreakWindows · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:They should have used the iButton by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Yeah, because I have this pressurised N2 atmosphere sitting over here in my basement...

    I tried building that. I'm 70% of the way there.