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Life & fun · June 30, 2016

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CDitter – CD-ROM drive based data exfiltration

CDitter – CD-ROM drive based data exfiltration launched on June 30, 2016 with 7 votes, #1,996 of 4,334 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

We present a method for the exfiltration of data through the movement of a CD-ROM drive. The movement of such drive is monitored through the use of a Raspberry Pi and camera. We make use of manchester encoding to represent data. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_code for more information. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-opencv sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install picamera sudo pip install numpy Improvements I’m sure the time to transmit data could be substantially reduced by decreasing the delays used for the CD tray eject/close commands and also possibly using an alternative technique to manchester encoding. Additionally the initial 15 second…from anfractuosity.com

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