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Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

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Re: Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

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Post by Cpoll » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

12_throw_away wrote: post #36

Cpoll wrote: post #34

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John Draper and his fellow hackers were EXPLOITING coin-operated payphones and switchboards in the 60s, so I'm not sure how far back you have to go to reach the noble vocation you describe.

whoosh

Oh, yeah, I see it now. Excuse me for being extremely dense. Upvote for you.

Re: Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

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Post by b00ty4breakfast » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 2:58 AM UTC

throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #11

grufkork wrote: post #8

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I thought they were going to just heat a chip to increase the overall error rate

Be it eletric or thermal, i came here for fried hardware and left disappointed. Now i have to wrangle my curiosity to what happens when you lighter-spark a usb port for the rest of the day.

if you've got an old disposable flash camera lying around, you can give it a big zap (I felt myself instantly aging like Dorian Gray looking at his portrait as I typed that sentence.)

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