Suggested readings week 32/2022
Roomba: your next mapping cleaner robot
The maker of Roomba, the famous vacuum cleaner, is about to be merged into Amazon. The value of the gadget lies in the possibility to get a lot of information about your house. Are you prepared for the next step of The Age of Surveillance?
https://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/new-age-surveillance/
Air-gapped attack against a computer or server: exfiltrating almost anything
A new type of attack on isolated, air-gapped workstations is demonstrated in this paper: the SATA (hard disk) cable is used as an antenna to transfer radio signals at the 6 GHz frequency band. Cheap, effective at stealing information from your neighbour office or datacenter.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07413
Sistemic change and maladaptation
Not all attempt to reverse climate change are sistemic and thus effective.