One of those quirks is a surprisingly high power consumption when powered down ... but it’s hardly the most complex of hacks. Where the interest lies is in why the board leaves the lights ...

How about a TEA laser? Don’t have a high-voltage power supply to run it? Do what [Steven] of rimstar.org did, and power it with a homemade Wimshurst machine. TEA lasers give off ultraviolet light.

A researcher analyzed how Akira operates on Linux and came with a brute-force decryption tool It took $1,200 and three weeks ...