Researcher Finds Chinese Kvm Has Undocumented Microphone,communicates with China
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gnabgib
25 days ago
Discussion on original source (457 points, 2 days ago, 120 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173383
chasing0entropy
25 days ago
Even airgapped, this kind of first gen device could later evelove to use USB emulation to appear as a system level device and communicate through its host... if it doesn't already have payloads that add that capability.
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