• NuXCOM_90Percent
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    2 months ago

    If you are close enough to spray a device you are close enough to just steal it. Or spray the owner.

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        2 months ago

        If y9ou are close enough to a system of importance that you can spray it, you are close enough to compromise it in countless other ways.

        This is just one of many physical access attacks. Just like “you could take a hammer to it”

        Like, I know people want to think this is some Ocean’s Eleven heist waiting to happen. It isn’t. This is only viable if you can drench an area with helium (which means you can already gas everyone you care about) or you have such close physical access that there are so many other things you could do. At best it is an episode of Burn Notice where Michael has to rapidly improvise an escape where his CIA handler of the week already refused to give him something much more useful.

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          2 months ago

          Just because you can take a hammer to it doesn’t mean that’s the best solution

          In the right situation I imagine it could be a useful tool, much more subtle than just smashing the thing, less time consuming than taking it apart