Some of you may remember the days when it was inadvisable to yell at a HDD array, the latency issue has been mostly overcome with the advances in technology over the last decade. That does not mean it is completely gone, as the read head in a HDD cannot read from a disk that is oscillating due to external input such as sound, and those tiny delays are how this researcher was able to use the HDD as a low quality microphone. He also found a tone which created even more latency than in that video; enough to have a system drop the disk as bad. There are links to the research over at Slashdot, including the new improved way to verbally abuse your storage devices.
"It's not accurate yet to pick up conversations," Ortega told Bleeping Computer in a private conversation. "However, there is research that can recover voice data from very low-quality signals using pattern recognition. I didn't have time to replicate the pattern-recognition portion of that research into mine. However, it's certainly applicable."
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“He also found a tone which
“He also found a tone which created even more latency than in that video; enough to have a system drop the disk as bad.”
The Brown Note for HDDs (but this time not an urban myth)? ‘Silver Note’ (for platter colour) maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIOzM7SsMo
“That does not mean it is
“That does not mean it is completely gone, as the read head in a HDD cannot read from a disk that is oscillating die to external input such as sound, and those tiny delays are how this researcher was able to use the HDD as a low quality microphone. ”
“Die” should probably be “due”.
Si.
Si.
i will not be satisfied with
i will not be satisfied with this story till Allyn recreates the scene from star-trek 4 where scotty talks to a mouse. (obviously replace mouse with hard drive)
Wait until the Intel Canon
Wait until the Intel Canon Lake chips come out. Built-in open firmware audio dsp and support for “modern standby.” Cortana is not your friend
https://theintercept.com/2016
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/04/microsoft-pitches-technology-that-can-read-facial-expressions-at-political-rallies/
But no reason to be alarmed, right?