alt Hacker NewsIt's a pretty well-known exploit that the CIA is capable of turning a lot of electronics with speakers into microphones. I imagine there is an entire classified backlog of things they can turn into microphones without the target's knowledge.
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MomsAVoxell • yesterday at 2:57 PM
The accelerometers that protect the average hard drive are easily subverted for this purpose.
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amelius • yesterday at 4:56 PM
I mean at this point I'm going to assume that any semiconductor device with more than a few pins has an embedded mems microphone.
righthand • yesterday at 2:22 PM
The CIA…plug a set of regular headphones into a microphone jack, open a recording application and speak into the headphone speaker, you don’t need a 3 letter agency for that physics open secret.
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_blk • yesterday at 8:40 PM
it's not (just) the CIA, it's (just) physics
Tangent but the hidden no-electronics bug "The Thing / Great Seal Bug" really crazy