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Today I learned that you can actually abuse the system bus on some macbooks to actually send audio over AM radio[0]. Even scarier, you can do it from the browser[1]. And now this library[2] will let you open a TCP connection over the radio to download off that data machine. This is shaping up to be a pretty cool attack PoC!

[0]: https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio

[1]: https://fulldecent.github.io/system-bus-radio

[2]: https://github.com/quiet/quiet-js




Code running in your browser gaining a TCP connection seems like the least scary use case of this possible- presumably it already has a TCP connection in the first place.


Could you possibly use the radio transmission to triangulate someone's location?


The range is quite low. If you can hear the radio you already know where it is.


How is the system bus radio machine going to receive its ACKs?


Yeah I realized this shortly after posting, too. UDP it is.



That reminds me of the programs you could run on a TI-83 calculator that used a similar approach for playing sound on headphones or a nearby AM radio: http://www.pacmeb.com/calc/features.php


what's the transmission speed?




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