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How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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I miss when Creative Labs meant you were buying a top notch sound card.
The player software than came with mine back in the good times was awesome. It had essentially a loopback recording feature where it'd record anything coming out the audio out. I actually ripped a few streamed songs that way by starting the stream and recording lol