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21 Post author: wwa 01 November 2013 10:07PM

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Comment author: wwa 02 November 2013 12:37:36AM *  14 points [-]

I think you misinterpreted the article. The virus can't infect a healthy machine "through the air" (microphone). It can bridge air gaps in the sense that two already infected machines can setup network over microphone, which is orders of magnitude more likely than the former. BIOS infections have been done before, so ...

Comment author: shminux 02 November 2013 01:37:35AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, they discuss this point. Still, even acoustic healing sounds rather hard, though not impossible.