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colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months agoIt’s not about a camera, but I have read something about using a hard drive as a microphone by detecting the vibrations of the head. Here is a short article I found about this: hackaday.com/…/hackers-turn-hard-drive-into-micro…
dingus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The article makes it sound like it doesn’t really work
colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yeah, but it is a cool proof of concept. I’m sure that in the following years the tech will get better and something like this might be a viable spying solution, but hdds are luckily dying out in private PCs