2026-07-18 09:53 UTC
@netspooky@haunted.computer I wrote a paper a while ago where we were considering a scenario of using a datacenter as a controllable electronic load for some experiments. We figured it would be pretty hard to actually break anything, even at much larger scale.
I think in practice, if someone were to try what they describe in that paper, it would hardly have an impact beyond the immediate vicinity of the datacenter.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3564625.3564640
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@jaseg@chaos.social 2026-07-18 09:57
@netspooky@haunted.computer It's a bit funny that in their paper they talk about EMI as a side channel, which would only work across short distances. What we showed in our paper (through simulation) is that if you have access to a big enough load like this, modulating it properly you can broadcast information across the whole continent. If your load is smaller, using local phase variations I'd guess you could still broadcast across a few hundred km radius without much trouble.