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Reads like a back door to me.
by chinathrow 10y ago
Reads like a back door to me.
- lima 10y agoNo, a feature. There are many valid uses for that sort of flexibility.
- 21 10y agoThis feature allows you to plug any audio device (input or output) into any audio jack on the computer and it will JustWorkTM. Even if the jacks are color coded or annotated, these day they are actually universal. So it's more of an accidental backdoor.
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoIt's the very, very old contradiction between convenience/features on one hand, and security on the other. The more convenient something is, and the more features it has, the easier it is to hijack it.
- qb45 10y agoThey aren't fully identical, though. On my motherboard with some Realtek 8xx chip, plugging headphones into front panel jack, green jack, black jack and everything else produces progressively worse quality. Mainly bass suffers and only when driving headphones (no problem driving amps) so either these outputs have lower power capacity on the chip or DC blocking capacitors on the motherboard are smaller.
- asddddd 10y agoIt can be very useful. I know about this feature due to breaking the headphone jack on a laptop and turning the input into an output to replace it. HDAJackRetask from alsa-tools is the tool for this on Linux.