Long story short, the signal needs to be loud and the attacker needs physical access, but HDDs can be turned into microphones now.
Mechanical HDDs Can Be Used As Microphones Now
Camden Morris
Landon Nelson
it can also be used like a tiny record player to play it back
Gavin Lewis
interesting, what hard drives have firmware open enough to allow modification and loading back onto the hard drive?
If this PES shit is that accurate to external noise it could also be used as an entropy source.
this requires further research
Nolan Ward
That's the thing; most of the firmware is already closed source, so we can't even know if this isn't the case.
Adrian Torres
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>Addendum: If you're suffering deja-vu, the paper cites Alfredo Ortega's earlier work (youtube.com
Jaxon Morgan
great, thanks china jews; instead of telling me which hard drives support open source firmware lock it down further and require botnet to verify a crypto signature like ME botnet
Jacob Rivera
Download the firmware and use ghidra to reverse it.
Problem solved.
Austin Diaz
Does it say anything about the frequency range that can be picked up?
Nicholas Phillips
from the register article
Jonathan Adams
That's interesting.
I wonder how prevalent HDD's are though today. Most new consumer tech, at least for the past 5 years, have been using solid-state for storage. And besides, nearly everyone carries some form of cellular phone with them, and nearly every laptop has a microphone built-in.
Luis Thompson
SSDs still can't compete for the price-point of larger HDDs. Especially with software bloat and HD movies being a thing, most people I know have a PC with both: an SSD with a size 256 or 512GB that has the OS and programs that work better with rapid access, while the HDD (sometimes multiple) in the 2-4TB range stores most of the media and program data.
You're right about the laptops and phones, though. I built my PC myself so I know damn well there isn't a microphone in there, but it does have an HDD. Good thing I don't have a habit of talking to myself.
Levi Parker
I could swear I heard of this a few years ago?
Nathan Garcia
I could swear punctuation has rules?
Ayden Edwards
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Nathan Brooks
That's a lot of fan noise to sort through.
Jordan Cooper
This is why you should keep your HDDs in a NAS in your basement.
Joshua Butler
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Jonathan Thompson
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Wyatt Ward
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Brandon Gomez
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Jeremiah Barnes
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES