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Poc, Presentation of Monitor OSD Exploitation, and shenanigans of high quality.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 5 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-08-12 · latest 2024-10-20

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  1. …found out about MonitorDarkly, a remote code execution exploit for the Dell 2410U monitor firmware. https://github.com/RedBalloonShenanigans/MonitorDarkly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634467#32635631…
    comment by pabs3 · 2024-10-20 · in Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
  2. …have hackable on screen display controllers. Unless you want to go back to VGA... Just saying... https://github.com/redballoonshenanigans/monitordarkly
    comment by ngneer · 2024-05-24 · in Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
  3. …firmware has had security exploits before, so firmware updates for them seem like a good idea. https://github.com/RedBalloonShenanigans/MonitorDarkly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634467
    comment by pabs3 · 2023-09-23 · in We are not sustainable
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    MonitorDarkly: PoC exploit over GProbe over DDC for Dell 2410U monitor (2016)
    story by pabs3 · 2022-08-29 · 4 comments
  5. …vulnerabilities are in DDC parsing firmware. MonitorDarkly proved that there are definitely some: https://github.com/redballoonshenanigans/monitordarkly
    comment by pabs3 · 2022-08-29 · in Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
  6. A late comment, but this sortakinda vaguely leans in the general direction you're describing: https://github.com/RedBalloonShenanigans/MonitorDarkly
    comment by exikyut · 2021-12-08 · in Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor
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    MonitorDarkly: PoC exploit over HDMI/USB for the Dell 2410U monitor (2016)
    story by pabs3 · 2020-01-28 · 0 comments
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    Lack of security in “modern” on-screen-display controllers
    story by elsewhen · 2017-11-07 · 0 comments
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    Monitordarkly: run code on your monitor
    story by BuuQu9hu · 2016-12-13 · 0 comments
  10. Since the monitor is external, I wonder if they've considered monitors as attack surface: https://github.com/RedBalloonShenanigans/MonitorDarkly
    comment by startling · 2016-09-29 · in ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer
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    MonitorDarkly – executing code on a Dell 2410U monitor
    story by zeveb · 2016-08-12 · 0 comments