{"id":8336,"date":"2014-01-21T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T20:56:46","slug":"inception-firewirethunderbolt-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/inception-firewirethunderbolt-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Inception FireWire\/Thunderbolt Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/carmaa\/inception\">Inception<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/carmaa\/inception\"><p>Inception is a FireWire physical memory manipulation and hacking tool exploiting IEEE 1394 SBP-2 DMA. The tool can unlock (any password accepted) and escalate privileges to Administrator\/root on almost any powered on machine you have physical access to. The tool can attack over FireWire, Thunderbolt, ExpressCard, PC Card and any other PCI\/PCIe interfaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/savagejen\/status\/419322108490285056\">Jen Savage<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/savagejen\/status\/419322108490285056\"><p>I knew these Thunderbolt\/FireWire attacks were possible, but I wasn&rsquo;t aware there was a tool that makes them easy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crucially:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/carmaa\/inception\"><p>If FileVault 2 is enabled, the tool will only work when the operating system is unlocked.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inception: Inception is a FireWire physical memory manipulation and hacking tool exploiting IEEE 1394 SBP-2 DMA. The tool can unlock (any password accepted) and escalate privileges to Administrator\/root on almost any powered on machine you have physical access to. The tool can attack over FireWire, Thunderbolt, ExpressCard, PC Card and any other PCI\/PCIe interfaces. Via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-06T20:56:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"00979986-3073-4615-ab60-aa83b4d9bf6e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-06T20:56:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAJeZhjBzRhWrYKqDtNm_bg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2095,706,202,448,30,74,48,201,219],"class_list":["post-8336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-exploit","tag-filevault","tag-firewire","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-opensource","tag-security","tag-thunderbolt","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33052,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/33052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}