Data transferred over air gap.

[guninski@guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 07:05:45AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/new-air-gap-jumper-covertly-transmits-data-in-hard-drive-sounds/
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> "Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infected computer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet to prevent the leakage of sensitive information it stores.

I think this is not new, possibly except for using the hard drive.

Don't remember the details. Sometime ago, someone with high reputation
(maybe related to a BSD project) claimed that he was infected by malware
using this. The malware used the speaker/soundcard.