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The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does (hackaday.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, it's more novel than that...

A coil of fiber is not meant to be a listening device, so they almost certainly exist in places where it wasn't previously deemed a risk.

That said, exploiting this in the wild seems like a pretty difficult job, I can't imagine how to do it without already having access to a target computer.