[David Buchanan] has written a piece investigating glitching attacks on PC memory, and the tool he’s used is the ubiquitous piezoelectric lighter. Attaching a short piece of wire to one of the ...

Then, last summer, I moved apartments and soon realized I'd lost my trusty multipurpose Bic lighter. You know, the plastic ones with the long wand where the design hasn't changed in more than a ...

It consists of a piezoelectric gas grill igniter, a little bit of enameled magnet wire, and half of a small toroidal ferrite core. The core fragment gets a few turns of wire, which then gets ...