Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound 245
An anonymous reader writes "Do you think an airgap can protect your computer? Maybe not. According to this story at Ars Technica, security consultant Dragos Ruiu is battling malware that communicates with infected computers using computer microphones and speakers." That sounds nuts, but it is a time-tested method of data transfer, after all.
Time tested? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm confused, you mean information can actually be conveyed via air vibrations?
In Space (Score:4, Funny)
Nobody can hear your infected computer's scream.
Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz, Oh What a Hack it is. (Score:4, Funny)
This story is generating a lot of buzz.
Re:Or EMI (Score:4, Funny)
SO you could tell who people voted for when one candidate had an umlat.
>implying everyone in Europe doesn't have an umlaut in their name.
Re:Time tested? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm confused, you mean information can actually be conveyed via air vibrations?
If you'd only listened in school, you'd know that . . .
Re:Summary is contradictory. (Score:3, Funny)
My first modem was a carrier pigeon, and we liked it.......for dinner.
Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars.. (Score:5, Funny)
At this time, I'm taking the whole thing with a handful of salt. It's not totally impossible, though.
That is next month's article: "Cross-Platform Malware spread through common table salt"
I figured out how he sends news! (Score:1, Funny)
Palin translates Snowden's farts from her house.
I'll keep it rolling.... (Score:4, Funny)
Is that anything like FidoNet? ;-)
Re:Hoax (Score:4, Funny)