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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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