INDEX	February 25, 2024
How to hack an offline computer
Funny thing happened to a couple of my mice. The type with cables for tails. No vermin were injured during research for this post. I was doing some video editing on my brand new Mac in my shed. It's cold. It's dark. But that's where I work. I happened to have the radio on and when I plugged in a mouse there was a violent interference sound. You know the type of thing. When I unplugged the mouse, the noise stopped. When I plugged it in again it started all over. Interesting. I have long wondered how it was possible to hack one of my computers even when I removed the wifi circuit inside the machine and unplugged the ethernet. It made no sense to me since the computer was physically incapable of receiving internet traffic. But, of course, if you could convert a mouse to one of those wifi dongles, you know the fiddly little usb devices used to enable wifi, then it would just be a question of taking charge of the basic operating system, the bios. Strangely I have been having problems with the bios. I discovered that one of my computers had a locked bios that required the insertion of a password I did not have. I had to get a computer engineer to replace the bios... But to return to the mice. I have been out working on my video today but when I came back I decided to check out the mouse. It had stopped creating radio interference. In fact it had stopped doing anything at all. It was a dead mouse. A quick search found a second mouse that had been working up to that point but had mysteriously stopped working as well. There may be others. I have (or used to have) a lot of mice.
INDEX Jonathan Brind	February 25, 2024