Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

Post by 15155 » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC

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The System on Module board is an Inforce 6601 SOM. [0] It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and they provide prebuilt Ubuntu Linaro distros for it, preconfigured for the board. The camera manufacturer likely just tossed it straight in as configured and thus didn't know how the full disk encryption was setup. This whole camera design looks like one of those 'we gave this project to some undergrad engineering students who…

I'll admit I only watched a video on it not the report, but it had pictures reportedly redacted at manufacturer request. It showed a teensy 3 and some adafruit qwiic board in there. Obviously the real engineering is in the enclosure. Otherwise it could just be a webcam. But still, it's clearly not a very in depth electrical design. I'm all for SoMs if you can but they don't guarantee you the adventure of custom hardw…

Post by chrsw » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 12:51 AM UTC

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It continues to amaze me how indestructible SDCards are.

It's a solid piece of silicon encased in epoxy, so there's nothing really to get crushed. Contrast this to something like a cellphone that's made of hundreds of separate parts and has void space that will get crushed.

Post by wkat4242 » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 1:20 AM UTC

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To add to that. My son got his phone caught in a reclining chair without realizing it. The fact that the phone bent in half instead of destroying the chair is a nice bonus. Replacing the phone was cheap, replacing a chair would not have been — yes, both are insured, but replacing/repairing a chair takes a hell of a lot longer.

I think most would disagree XD. Phones these days are often more expensive than the chair and can be pretty inconvenient to replace, especially if you have nonrecent backups.

Post by MBCook » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 1:23 AM UTC

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dmix wrote: post #43

Since not everyone reads articles: > Somewhat disappointingly, the images and videos shared in the report were taken in the vicinity of the ROV shop at the Marine Institute, also in Newfoundland. The location was the logistical base for Titanic dive missions. No deep-sea shenanigans around the Titanic wreck were revealed.

Wouldn’t it have been streaming it to disk without creating the file? Kinda like how if your camera dies while it’s recording, there is no recording. You have to manually recreate the file.

Post by dgoldstein0 » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 1:28 AM UTC

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There are some reasons you'd want to encrypt even without a secret key. One is it makes it easier to erase data (just erase the key). It also makes bit flip errors a lot more obvious, which is another way of saying harder to ignore, so that can go either way.

Can't bit flip errors also destroy encrypted volumes much more easily?