Article 2P3NZ HP's stupid audio-driver logs every keystroke you make (and it has an API!)

HP's stupid audio-driver logs every keystroke you make (and it has an API!)

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Cory Doctorow
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The Swiss security research firm Modzero just published a report documenting a grave flaw in HP laptops: an audio-driver made by Conexant that captures every keystroke (to detect volume up/down and mute-button presses) and saves them to an unencrypted file on the local system, which can then be exfiltrated via a debugging API that allows remote parties to see every keystroke in realtime. (more")

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