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> Edit: 12. My desktop doesn't have a microphone or camera, so they cannot be surreptitiously turned on remotely. I am pretty sure your computer has a micropho
by ibotty 6y ago
> Edit: 12. My desktop doesn't have a microphone or camera, so they cannot be surreptitiously turned on remotely.
I am pretty sure your computer has a microphone, because it most likely has a speaker.
- anfilt 6y agoThe speaker is generally hooked up to a pre-amp and that pre-amp to the DAC. The hardware would need to also have an ADC attached to the speaker for that work. So such an attack could only happen if sound-chipset/card integrated into the motherboard also has an ADC sitting on the same analog line as the speaker output. I have only ever seen the hybrid mic/headphone ports on laptops and not desktop motherboards. They may exist, but I have yet to see one. Although I guess what matter is how the ports are actually wired.
- Spearchucker 6y agoCan't speak for OP, but mine certianly doesn't. I know because I assembled it.
- WalterBright 6y agoMine doesn't have a speaker, either. It does have one of those wretched dingers that attach to the SPKR wires.
- ibotty 6y agoSure that can't be used? I don't know what wretched dingers are.