{"id":2119,"date":"2013-11-05T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2013-11-05T11:05:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:05:28","slug":"bridging-the-air-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/05\/bridging-the-air-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the air gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>badBIOS<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/11\/badbios.html\">https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/11\/badbios.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got to say I was very skeptical when I started reading the post and kept checking my calendar to see if it was April 1st.  As is usual for Schneier&#8217;s blog, the comments are also interesting reading; I suggest interested reader(s) scroll down and check them out.  The general consensus I got was it was feasible to get a few kbps and the knee jerk response is that bandwidth at that rate is useless.  Well, for surfing the &#8216;net today, that is certainly the case, but back in the &#8216;old days&#8217; when you weren&#8217;t transmitting gigabyte Flash files it actually could be very useful.  Back in the &#8216;old days&#8217; you would transmit compressed code and then compile it (or run it as a script) on the remote host and actually move quite a bit of functionality around over such a low bandwidth connection.  So, for well written malware (yes, I know that is generally an oxymoron) such a tiny soda straw would be very valuable.  <\/p>\n<p>The moral to this story: with modern computers with all sorts of wireless communication (intentional or otherwise) devices built-in it can take a great deal of effort to truly isolate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>badBIOS https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/11\/badbios.html I got to say I was very skeptical when I started reading the post and kept checking my calendar to see if it was April 1st. As is usual for Schneier&#8217;s blog, the comments are also interesting reading; I suggest interested reader(s) scroll down and check them out. The general consensus I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/05\/bridging-the-air-gap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bridging the air gap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infosec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}