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by zkms 3329 days ago
The title is a little bit misleading, this is a case of an intentional covert channel (both communicating parties are controlled by the attacker, and one intentionally creates acoustic radiation that the other listens for), and not a side channel (where the attacker listens for unintentional acoustic emanations from a device they do not control, like https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/).