Re:Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
by robin_reala on Friday April 03, 2020 @04:19PM
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I think it’s this paper I remember that describes it as an “optical tempest” and talks about storage mechanism leakage: http://applied-math.org/acm_optical_tempest.pdf
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Re:Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
by angry_octet on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:51PM
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Yeah it's type II in the Loughry schema. Still unfortunate if you're operating a high security air gapped network, but not squirting out secrets without being compromised first.
It seems almost quaint to worry about this when so much software has web spyware baked into it -- but maybe we need a virtual spyware led that lights up every time something talks to Facebook/Google/etc tracking. The light would be blinking non-stop for many people.