More hardware that needs killswitches
#1
Exclamation 
Hi Whonix dev here. We are a privacy and anonymity distro project that have been around for a decade and privacy focused open hardware is a big deal for us. Your projects are a fantastic example of what is possible in the FLOSS space.

I'd like to share with you extra research we've been gathering on privacy attacks through clever misuse of hardware so you take this into account when adding hardware switches in future iterations of your products.

They are neatly summarized in the link below, but I will go ahead and mention them here:

* Speakers can be converted into auxiliary microphones to eavesdrop on the user

* accelerometers and gyroscopes may also be abused to reconstruct speech from sound wave vibrations.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Surfing_Post...Mitigation
  Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  hardware updates ??? aular 0 187 03-05-2024, 08:28 PM
Last Post: aular
  Cryptocurrency payment option and Pine hardware wallet, any thoughts? ohuw67 11 9,764 03-03-2023, 01:18 AM
Last Post: user641
  Does the pinephone have hardware kill switches located on the outside of the phone? unix21311 2 1,658 10-03-2022, 05:53 AM
Last Post: unix21311
  Pine64 Working on RISC-V Hardware! ImmyChan 0 981 07-04-2022, 02:32 PM
Last Post: ImmyChan
  Pine64 quality of the hardware support : the PinePhone case Gribouille 7 4,666 10-07-2021, 11:26 AM
Last Post: ypd
  Some questions about Pine64 hardware in general RevonCirth 2 2,698 09-17-2021, 08:57 AM
Last Post: gamerminstrel
  Market Forces and Open Hardware globaltree 10 8,928 06-14-2021, 03:00 AM
Last Post: jannynee
  Dormant Projects and Hardware S265 7 7,891 09-28-2020, 05:54 PM
Last Post: Avamander
  Hardware related informations guenther 0 1,796 09-10-2020, 04:39 AM
Last Post: guenther
  NAS v2 hardware? mystic221 8 12,315 06-12-2020, 07:13 PM
Last Post: matosys

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)