In Czechia, any unauthorized access to anything that can be defined as a “computer system” is a criminal offense. You can go to jail for that even if your access was totally unintentional. Yes, there are some crazy guys who do not care at all but I try to be clean for various reasons.

At the university, we did go through physical hardware attacks, like USB keyloggers or getting data from frozen memory sticks and cryptographic keys from smartcards. But as I am finishing my master’s in cybersecurity management, I realized that something has been missing – the actual means of “getting physical.”

This video was recorded for the sole purpose of having some reference in my bachelor thesis that such an attack can be done. It is one of many strikingly apparent physical attacks for which I could not find any example online. On the other hand, more popular PIR REXes have tons of videos.

I made my first (not indicating that there were any others!) crime in 2009 when I was 14 years old. Well, the criminality of phishing was controversial at the time but it’s 2020 now and we are well beyond it’s possible limitation period so I can talk about it freely:

After many years of “hobbying” in the security field, I learned that people tend to ignore the possibilities a potential adversary may have. I have had much fun but never wrote about it. And that is a shame. Some of my stories are almost ten years old, and I will certainly come back to them, but now I need to self-reference myself for my bachelor thesis on more relevant issues, so let’s start with that!