Are there ways to penetrate even air gapped systems?
air-gapped means completely inaccessible unless you're there in front of it. a PC with no wifi chip and no ethernet cable plugged into it can be considered air-gapped. even so, secret agencies have literally concocted plots to gain access to people's air-gapped systems, Homeland Security for example had several people distracting the Silk Road drug lord at a public library where he'd brought his laptop before his arrest to make sure he was logged in and everything on it had been decrypted in memory.
air-gapped means completely inaccessible unless you're there in front of it. a PC with no wifi chip and no ethernet cable plugged into it can be considered air-gapped. even so, secret agencies have literally concocted plots to gain access to people's air-gapped systems, Homeland Security for example had several people distracting the Silk Road drug lord at a public library where he'd brought his laptop before his arrest to make sure he was logged in and everything on it had been decrypted in memory.
Silkroad guy was an idiot tho. How does one even fall for that? And wtf was he still doing in the US anyway?
IIRC the US government actually burned a couple of their zero-day vulnerabilities in order to get at that guy.