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  • Detecting eavedropping devices in PC parts?

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 19 00:08:54 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, alt.engineering.electrical, sci.electronics.basics

    Is there an easy way to check wehther a certain PC component has
    eavedropping device ATTACHED? :)

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  • From Charles Lucas@21:1/5 to Mr. Man-wai Chang on Sat Feb 18 08:20:00 2023
    On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 10:09:06 AM UTC-6, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    Is there an easy way to check wehther a certain PC component has
    eavedropping device ATTACHED? :)

    Do you mean audio or sound and listening device or a line monitoring device?

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  • From Peter W.@21:1/5 to Mr. Man-wai Chang on Sat Feb 18 10:47:39 2023
    On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 11:09:06 AM UTC-5, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    Is there an easy way to check wehther a certain PC component has eavedropping device ATTACHED? :)

    Given that you live either in the PRC, or in a closely-controlled province of the PRC, and if your computer is more than a few years old, I would be frankly surprised were it not eavesdropping, one way or another. Either via on-board hardware, or more
    likely malware that is using your internet connection and looking at all traffic of any nature going through your device.

    And, lest you think you are special in any way, the NSA (amongst others) has the same capacity here in the US. Whether they use it or not is anyone's guess.

    Peter Wieck
    Melrose Park, PA

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