Timeline for answer to Unidirectional continuous data transfer to an air-gapped computer by user4574
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| Apr 7, 2021 at 3:55 | comment | added | MWB | Dumb question probably, but if you connect 2 (say, Linux) computers using a serial port cable, how would you actually send a file from one machine to another? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 16:38 | comment | added | Ferrybig | @dandavis The TX is not needed for flow control, flow control is done over pins RTS and CTS, which could be skipped like the other pins. If missing, the transmitter doesn't know if the target has enough space in its buffers. You really only need GND and RX with serial on side A, and TX and GND at the other side. (Source: I have 2 USB to serial adapters laying around here, and this is the bare minimum needed to make 2 devices talk) | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 22:14 | comment | added | dandavis | I don't think you need to remove TX, which could be needed for flow control. An exploit that usefully alters an already-running program that has exclusive access to B's serial port, as well as a new incoming serial handler on A to exfiltrate, seems basically impossible. If eve could devise that, you might as well give up. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 16:43 | comment | added | user4574 | @user253751 I had intended to mean that the pin in the cable be removed, but that is a good clarification. For astandard PC serial port, the cable usually has pins and the PC side is usually a sockets. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 16:04 | comment | added | bta | I've done this on several occasions, it's easy and inexpensive. Your transfer speed is a bit limited, but still plenty fast for many use cases. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 14:32 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | Don't remove the pin, remove the wire in the cable. You never know when you might want to use that port for something else later. | |
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| Dec 15, 2020 at 5:41 | history | answered | user4574 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |