A Monitor’s Ultrasonic Sounds Can Reveal What’s on the Screen

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  1. guest

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    A Monitor’s Ultrasonic Sounds Can Reveal What’s on the Screen
    August 23, 2018
    https://www.wired.com/story/monitor-ultrasonic-sounds-reveal-content-side-channel/
    Synesthesia: Detecting Screen Content via Remote Acoustic Side Channels (PDF):
    https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/synesthesia/synesthesia.pdf
     
  2. guest

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    SonarSnoop Acoustic Side-Channel Attack Can Steal Touchscreen Interactions
    August 31, 2018
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...el-attack-can-steal-touchscreen-interactions/
    SonarSnoop: Active Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks (PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.10250v1.pdf
     
  3. EASTER

    EASTER Registered Member

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    Interesting to see so many potential functions coming to light which can likely be realized with today's increased probing & testing this and that. Back on Windows 98 many of these matters were discussed but could only go so far since touchscreen tech was relatively new at the time.
     
  4. CloneRanger

    CloneRanger Registered Member

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    Clever ! Whatever next
     
  5. mirimir

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    This is clever and all, but ultrasonics don't penetrate all that well. So just don't let adversaries or their devices into your workspace :)
     
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