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Re:How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM by motbus3 on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:12PM (#46174869)
You might be right but I think we cannot assume malice when it could be laziness. It might be that the exact same board has multiple target audiences and they just rebrand it for different purposes with different pricing.

That said, the microphone is so weirdly positioned that it gets suspicious indeed.

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Re:How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM by inetknght on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:21PM (#46174948)
> I think we cannot assume malice when it could be laziness

Why can't it be both?

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Re:How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM by calmworm on Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:39PM (#46176016)
Perception of laziness with an option for later maliciousness and somewhat plausible deniability.
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Re:How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM by Ekaros on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:31PM (#46175012)
>That said, the microphone is so weirdly positioned that it gets suspicious indeed.

How is it weirdly positioned? To me it seems there is rather few options for such small board.

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Re:How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM by b00ty4breakfast on Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:16PM (#46175840)
> I think we cannot assume malice when it could be laziness

If you are too lazy to go back and check if you left the gas on, you bear responsibility if the place explodes.

At the very least, it's negligent to leave something like that in and not be very upfront about it.

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