Quick teaser of my ekoparty talk Turning hard disk drives into accidental microphones

Regular spinning Hard disk drives can be used to detect movement and sound. Modern Operative system provide very high resolution timers, even to unprivileged users. This is the source of timing attacks, because when you can count nanoseconds, you can measure things that you shouldn t be able to measure. For example, the disk drive timing delay. Song: So Far Away Lazerhawk