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Fans can steal data from computers


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Freetards on suicide watch!

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1606/1606.05915.pdf
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>>55299850
>implying i'm going to open a random PDF link from the internet
no

post the content or fuck off
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>>55300058
Malware on the computer can control fan speeds. Fan speeds oscillate and a microphone captures the sound. Nothing groundbreaking.

Also,
>not knowing arxiv

Dunce
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This is fucking stupid

>requires a microphone to work
>implying the microphone itself can't get 200% more incriminating shit

This is like saying a shower can steal your nudes because there can be a camera hidden in the bathroom somewhere.
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we already knew about em snooping on keypresses, this sounds inferior to even that
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How about just replacing fans with 2-pin fans that can't be power modulated?
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If the attacker can somehow upload a program to a non-networked computer why not extract information using the same method??
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>freetards
>requires execution of malware
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