Re:Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
by nknighthb on Thursday October 31, 2013 @11:28AM
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It is explained. HF audio via speakers and microphones. In other words, a modem. Your username is highly ironic.
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Re:Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
by nknighthb on Thursday October 31, 2013 @11:50AM
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> Are you just assuming these are laptops with a battery?
Did you even read the article? It's a laptop. That would be the safe assumption, anyway. Laptops far out-stripped desktop sales years ago, they're what most work happens on now.
> And saying that computers are communicating by speakers and microphones over long distances (i.e. > a few inches) is patently ridiculous.
It's not. I've done it myself. Go grab a couple laptops and some PSK31 software and you can do it, too.
Re:Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
by 300bps on Thursday October 31, 2013 @11:49AM
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My main question was regarding the power cords not being plugged in but apparently these are laptops.
As for communications via speakers and microphones, that makes as much sense as any other outrageously insane theory I've ever heard.
Re:Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
by ToastyMallows on Thursday October 31, 2013 @11:43AM
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> power cables
Keep in mind he's talking about laptops that have batteries.
Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed