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> whichever part they exploited to gain access remotely

I think you missed the point of "no networking", you have to actually physically sit in front of the computer. There is no remote access.

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I didn’t follow the whole thread. Just want to point out that over the last 10 years hacking air-gapped systems has been a primary objective. Hard drive clicks, keyboard clicks, CPU squeaks, speaker-to-speaker. Exactly what advanced adversarial AI would be specifically good at.

All those require cooperating machines and are at best very slow data exfiltration mechanisms.

Those do technically cross an air gap but don't they still require being really close to work?

“Close” in relative terms. It’s been a while and don’t remember, but I think one study concluded it could be done from across the street or through an office window, etc.

It may not sound very exciting, but if you’re the NSA or CIA and you want access to a HVT, then all of these options are on the table if the routine approaches haven’t been successful.

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