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Corsair has released its first Vengeance RGB DRAM modules, which come with heat spreaders that feature LED lighting that can be controlled by Corsair Link software or GIGABYTE'S RGB Fusion app:
Corsair last week started to sell its first Vengeance RGB memory modules, equipped with full sets of RGB LEDs that can change their colors using OS software. Right now Corsair offers DDR4-2666 and DDR4-3000 modules, but eventually we expect the Vengeance RGB lineup will be expanded.
Just like other Vengeance memory modules, the Vengeance RGB DIMMs are based on Corsair's custom PCBs as well as preselected ICs. The modules come with aluminum heat spreaders featuring RGB LEDs that can change colors dynamically using the Corsair Link software, allowing users to synchronize colors of RGB lighting of their DIMMs and specific motherboard brands. Lighting of each module can be controlled separately as well. The lighting of the Vengeance RGB can also be controlled using GIGABYTE's RGB Fusion app and Corsair states that eventually other producers of LED-controlling software are expected to follow.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Sunday April 02 2017, @06:37AM (10 children)
I read the article but I'm still missing it. Why bother doing this? Does anyone really sit and look at DRAM?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @06:48AM
It's computer parts for guido nerds to show off to vinnie nerds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @06:50AM (7 children)
> Why bother doing this?
Data exfiltration.
> Does anyone really sit and look at DRAM?
Your scanner, and every other camera in the vicinity: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/flatbed-scanners-used-as-relay-point-for-controlling-malware-in-air-gapped-systems/ [bleepingcomputer.com]
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Sunday April 02 2017, @07:37AM (6 children)
Is that why you post as AC?
(Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Sunday April 02 2017, @08:10AM (4 children)
Because Corsair just succeeded in putting a product onto the market place that enables easy and fast data ex-filtration. One could call it a DRAM with a vengeance ..
These kind of features defeats air-gaped networks as if dishwasher backdoors [soylentnews.org] isn't enough. The intent is probably to please new-shiny-blink-blink crowd but it just seem to convenient for other purposes, especially when attached to memory electronics.
A soldering iron might be a good idea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @10:32AM (2 children)
Because Corsair just succeeded in putting a product onto the market place that enables easy and fast data ex-filtration. One could call it a DRAM with a vengeance ..
So you think these DRAM modules will be giving away what your processor is doing by flashing Morse Code with a vengeance? They still don't have light working to transmit data inside a chip let alone sending it across the room via slow LEDs to a scanner with the lid down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @06:08PM
I think a good way to defeat this is to put the memory in computer chassis not designed by blingy hipsters.
wait no one would put this or any RGB lighting in a server. this will only allow for porn to get stolen from parents basements
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 03 2017, @03:10PM
Light transmission can be fixed with system management code, BIOS etc. And no one knows what all these integrated chips really do anyway.
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday April 03 2017, @12:50AM
These products are aimed at PC gamers, not servers or professional workstations. Not many PC gamers airgap their computers to protect them from their refrigerator sized, $6,000 lab washers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:28AM
jim did you smoke before posting?
nothing in tfa nor the AC's fa nor the comment chain, except for you, mentions DRAM vs. other RAM.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 02 2017, @06:56AM
Come on, don't you remember what you learned in high school? Red LEDs make your stuff go faster, blue ones shave off up to 5*C from operating temperature under load, and green ones decrease power consumption.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...