Debate: Can Air-Gapped GPUs Leak Data via Thermal Side Channels?

A debate erupted over whether air-gapped computers could leak data via GPU temperature oscillations. Critics argued that AI agents distributed across multiple GPUs cannot control computation rates or measure timing, making such side-channel exfiltration impractical.

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