If you solder a ~10cm long "antenna" wire to a laptop's DRAM data bus, it makes it extra sensitive to electromagnetic interference.
So much so that clicking a piezo-electric arc lighter nearby can induce bit-flips.
I wrote an exploit to turn those bitflips into a shell:
David Buchanan
npub1cy…mkp27
2024-10-02 22:17:32 UTC
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wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2024-10-02 22:17:32 UTCEvent JSON
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