Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

48 points by matthew2 a day ago on lobsters | 5 comments

icefox | a day ago

Darn I was hoping this somehow managed to exploit the audio device by playing particular data into its microphone.

martinald | 22 hours ago

Same. Would be cool.

I wonder if it'd be possible to exploit old(er) dial up modem banks or ADSL terminals like this?

TyberiusPrime | 10 hours ago

Back in 2018 HP multi function printers were vulnerable to a fax attack.

nposting | a day ago

this whole post has a joyous tone, and the directness of being able to just change the text on the segment display is just absurdly cute

[OP] matthew2 | a day ago

Over-the-air updates (the bad kind)