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  • [CM] Hacking headphones to serve as a microphone

    From Jim@21:1/5 to rsw@therandymon.com on Tue Jan 10 17:50:39 2017
    On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:31:38 +0000 (UTC), RS Wood
    <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

    From the «try taping those up, sucker» department:
    Title: Drops the mic... Hang on, hackers could be listening through my headphones?
    Author: John Leyden
    Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 06:10:49 -0500
    Link: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/25/speaker_microphone_malware_hack/

    RealTek codec vuln can switch speakers from output to input

    You'd notice when the earphones stopped working ?

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