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Google Back-Tracks On Cookies and HDMI vulnerability!

Google Back-Tracks On Cookies and HDMI vulnerability!

Read about Google's decision and about the new vulnerability in HDMI.

Devon Wantland
July 30, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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Woah, A Fair Agreement And A Scare? 💣️

We saw this story pop up this week and knew immediately we had to bring this back to the attention of our readers. This comes from four years of work on a tediously monolithic task, removing cookies from browsers. HDMI’s also seem to be exposed as having a hacking vulnerability.

The Privacy Sandbox

Google’s Privacy Sandbox

Google started an epic quest to rid the browser world of cookies and upheave the decades long status quo set by their introduction. Development and constant negotiations has been ongoing for four years and since then we’re finally seeing agreements take place across the website sphere.

A compromise will be in place allowing the consumer to choose if they wish to continue using cookies or if they wish to use the privacy sandbox features. This is a huge win in agency for browser users everywhere.

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HDMI Exposed?

Three computer security researchers from Uruguay presented that we have the capability to reproduce text on a screen by listening to an HDMI cable. This is possible thanks to the recent developments in AI.

They took an AI model and trained it based screen samples associated with radiation signals moving through the computer's HDMI cable. Alike how a amateur becomes a master, they gradually became more precise when deciphering future samples. A 70% accuracy rate was observed.

It was elaborated on by the engineers that it became quite easy to steal passwords this way. They also speculate that this has been already public knowledge across the increasingly sophisticated hacking sphere.

Fortunately, this is a costly way to hack. It would take the funding of a government agency or extreme skill to masterfully use this method to any effect.

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