Just a fun, somewhat terrifying read

  • Cyborganism
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    6 months ago

    Didn’t someone implement a virus at some point that propagated through sound from speakers to microphones?

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      6 months ago

      That was a way to offload information from an air gapped system. It already has to be compromised to work

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      6 months ago

      IIRC that was not proven and the researcher who made that claim had some mental illness? Idk

      • Nate@programming.dev
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        To be fair, if we discredited research from individuals with mental illness half of our research would be gone.

        But yeah, it was mostly a proof of concept of someone happened to plug a bad USB into an air gapped machine with a mic and speakers