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One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying (vice.com)
"We can now hack the monitor and you shouldn't have blind trust in those pixels coming out of your monitor..." a security researcher tells Motherboard. "If you have a monitor, chances are your monitor is affected." An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes Motherboard's article:
if a hacker can get you to visit a malicious website or click on a phishing link, they can then target the monitor's embedded computer, specifically its firmware...the computer that controls the menu to change brightness and other simple settings on the monitor. The hacker can then put an implant there programmed to wait...for commands sent over by a blinking pixel, which could be included in any video or a website. Essentially, that pixel is uploading code to the monitor. At that point, the hacker can mess with your monitor...
[T]his could be used to both spy on you, but also show you stuff that's actually not there. A scenario where that could dangerous is if hackers mess with the monitor displaying controls for a power plant, perhaps faking an emergency. The researchers warn that this is an issue that could potentially affect one billion monitors, given that the most common brands all have processors that are vulnerable...
"We now live in a world where you can't trust your monitor," one researcher told Motherboard, which added "we shouldn't consider monitors as untouchable, unhackable things."
[T]his could be used to both spy on you, but also show you stuff that's actually not there. A scenario where that could dangerous is if hackers mess with the monitor displaying controls for a power plant, perhaps faking an emergency. The researchers warn that this is an issue that could potentially affect one billion monitors, given that the most common brands all have processors that are vulnerable...
"We now live in a world where you can't trust your monitor," one researcher told Motherboard, which added "we shouldn't consider monitors as untouchable, unhackable things."
...I only used punched cards. Including that box of random cards I found in the parking lot.
Silence is a state of mime.
Your messages aren't "vanishing". Hackers have hacked your monitor to make it look that way.
Dump-a-Drumpf 2016/Forever
Who monitors the monitors?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Some of us did.
Sent via courier pigeon.
[user@localhost ~]$ ping yvan256.amish.org
PING yvan256.amish.org (144.131.380.158): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 144.131.380.158: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=14.368 hrs
64 bytes from 144.131.380.158: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=11.156 hrs
64 bytes from 144.131.380.158: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=12.062 hrs
64 bytes from 144.131.380.158: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=11.772 hrs
64 bytes from 144.131.380.158: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=11.867 hrs
^C
Specialist Mac support for creative pros, Melbourne
Your monitor has been HACKED!