• tal@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    Hmm.

    That seems like it’d open a lot of potential abuses.

    I wonder what the failure mode of various electronic locks is when they’re exposed to helium?

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      4 months ago

      If you are in a position where you can dump random gases into the air supply to the degree it impacts these devices then they are likely compromised in other ways as well.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t know about that. It seemed to have a pretty rapid impact on the phone in that video, and it’s not like those are exactly open. And they weren’t pressurizing it.

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        4 months ago

        You don’t necessarily need to put it into the air supply, could just bathe the specific device you want disabled in helium from a deodorant can or something