Hacking with a BBQ Lighter: The Unlikely Method to Gain Laptop Access

David Buchanan demonstrated a proof-of-concept hardware fault-injection attack that used a piezo-electric BBQ lighter to generate electromagnetic interference picked up by a wire soldered to a DRAM data pin on a 2011 Samsung laptop. By inducing memory errors on demand he manipulated the CPython interpreter to obtain an arbitrary memory read/write primitive and achieve root access; the report highlights a physical-layer vulnerability and creative TTPs but documents an experimental, targeted proof-of-concept rather than active large-scale exploitation.