oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 7 months agoA Windows XP machine's life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PCwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1343arrow-down1external-linkA Windows XP machine's life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PCwww.pcgamer.comoleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCyborganismlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-27 months agoDidn’t someone implement a virus at some point that propagated through sound from speakers to microphones?
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoThat was a way to offload information from an air gapped system. It already has to be compromised to work
minus-squarefelixwhynot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·7 months agoIIRC that was not proven and the researcher who made that claim had some mental illness? Idk
minus-squareNate@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoTo 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
Didn’t someone implement a virus at some point that propagated through sound from speakers to microphones?
That was a way to offload information from an air gapped system. It already has to be compromised to work
IIRC that was not proven and the researcher who made that claim had some mental illness? Idk
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