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Scenario:

#Hacking #Bitcoin #Cypherpunks

Say you had 10 minutes (minus finding it and setting up) with someone’s MacBook, and you wanted to “infect” or pull as much information from it as possible without ANY logs showing that you’ve done anything to it, or plugged in any devices.

The MacBook is closed, asleep, and locked with the basic password.

What could you do, and could you ensure that there was no indication at all (no logs whatever) that suggested you had tampered with it?

If yes, what would you need to pull it off?

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 1y ago

Boot into tails via and copy files

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Discussion

Guy Swann 1y ago

How could you prevent usb logging though? I plugged in nothing but a charge cable and immediately unplugged it and there were like 100+ IOPort logs and kernel logs.

Currency of Distrust 1y ago

Booting to another OS would happen at the firmware/BIOS level, I don’t think it would create a macOS level event in the logs

Jeff Swann 1y ago

But the laptop was on but closed & asleep, how would you shut down, boot into another OS & then return it to the previous state without logs?

Currency of Distrust 1y ago

Ya fair! I was only thinking USB logs in that specific instance, not thinking through the whole scenario

SuiGenerisJohn 1y ago

Aren't newer macbooks hard drives natively encrypted so that the files would be encrypted on download? I also don't think TAILS can boot on Apple Silicon (yet)

Currency of Distrust 1y ago

I don’t think Tails would have access to the local filesystem

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 1y ago

I'm not a good hacker

Currency of Distrust 1y ago

Tis what I do 😅

Diacone Frost 1y ago

the data are encrypted

semisol 1y ago

Recovery is a better way, you can even reset passwords, it’s integrated, no logs

Bitcoin ETF 1y ago

Tails still does not support M-series chips. MacOS recommends to encrypt all data on the first setup.