Disconcerting news just received from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) InsideScience News Service [via insidescience@aip.org]
Computers Can Be Hacked Using High-Frequency Sound
A computer's microphone and speakers can covertly send and receive data.
By: Ker Than, ISNS Contributor
Inside Science News Service December 11, 2013
(ISNS) -- Using the microphones and speakers that come standard in many of today's laptop computers and mobile devices, hackers can secretly transmit and receive data using high-frequency audio signals that are mostly inaudible to human ears, a new study shows. (continue to full article text)
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