11-17-2022, 06:56 AM
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
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