Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound

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.

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Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars..

[Austrian Anarchy]

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"