MonitorDarkly
Poc, Presentation of Monitor OSD Exploitation, and shenanigans of high quality.
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What it is
Poc, Presentation of Monitor OSD Exploitation, and shenanigans of high quality.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
Observed mentions: 2016-08-12 20:15:43 UTC to 2024-10-20 04:39:44 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
11 sourcesMonitorDarkly: PoC exploit over GProbe over DDC for Dell 2410U monitor (2016)
10 points · Open discussionMonitorDarkly: PoC exploit over HDMI/USB for the Dell 2410U monitor (2016)
2 points · Open discussionLack of security in “modern” on-screen-display controllers
1 points · Open discussionMonitordarkly: run code on your monitor
2 points · Open discussionMonitorDarkly – executing code on a Dell 2410U monitor
6 points · Open discussion