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This 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 code
by 21 10y ago
This 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.