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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by pbhjpbhj on Friday May 17, 2019 @06:14AM (#19938056)
>A standard Red Book audio CD cannot install malware to your system. //

I don't think I'd ever be so confident as to say that given some of the incredible hacks I've seen ;o)

Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by segfaultbuserr on Friday May 17, 2019 @06:21AM (#19938089)
Well, theoretically, "an Audio CD that exploits a buffer overflow of your music player on your computer and installs malware" is always a possibility, and a good intellectual challenge.

But doing it at an industrial scale and including an 0day exploit in all albums is a separate thing, I don't believe it would ever happen. On the other hand, creating an extension of the standard to "make a better CD" is a real threat, for example, a plausible example would be:

"a CD-based service that connects to a server to obtain metadata and lyrics of your music, like a proprietary version of MusicBrainz, but with ads and tracking added."