Timeline for Can headphones transmit malware?
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| May 18, 2017 at 20:33 | answer | added | jmcph4 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 1:24 | comment | added | Ian Howson | EarPods contain an auth chip, so all of the "headphones don't contain storage" comments are moot. It's almost certainly not capable of being used for nefarious purposes, but it's possible. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | Nate Watson | Google Tone could be used to send a link to a malicious webpage, with the page using further exploits to infect. The tones could easily be played with headphones. However, this would be a very limited attack. But the answer is yes. | |
| Jun 18, 2016 at 17:04 | answer | added | micheal65536 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 22:53 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 17, 2016 at 13:44 | comment | added | LukeG | Given that headphones are able to transmit songs from Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift the answer is a definitive YES. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 15:32 | comment | added | tonychow0929 | @pipe To clarify: the operating systems are not really important. Human-made operating systems are prone to security issues. What I'm interested in is whether headphones are capable of carrying malware. If they aren't, I don't have to worry that malware may exploit some iOS vulnerabilities and eventually cause harm on my phone. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | pipe | @A.Darwin I bet you 5 internet currencies that the user had never thought about this question if he had used the headphones in another iPhone. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 10:44 | comment | added | A. Darwin | @pipe I hope the question doesn't depend on the fact that the headphones were plugged into an Android phone. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 10:29 | answer | added | Jens Erat | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 8:12 | comment | added | pipe | It's amazing to see all the brainwashing Apple has done, with all of these "OMG will Android give my Apple a virus? Android phones are so dirty!" | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 8:04 | comment | added | Dave Mulligan | I'd classify a lot of the music my kids listen to as "malware". So yes, headphones can transmit malware. :-) | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 7:09 | answer | added | Fils | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 5:37 | comment | added | Suici Doga | Maybe store all the music you listen to? | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 4:13 | comment | added | Hack-R | @TheGreatDuck Not ALL mp3's. But they planted mp3's that looked like the songs you wanted to download on networks like Napster (or whatever, it may have been after Napster) and it would start off with the song then out of nowhere there was a horrible high pitched noise 100x worse than nails scratching a chalkboard. It was meant to cause negative reinforcement not to download music. I heard a song with that in it once and it hurt my brain for days. Apparently some were worse than others. Personally I think it was a far greater evil than the p2p music download it was meant to prevent. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 3:38 | comment | added | user64742 | @Hack-R are you saying that they tried to make all mp3's dangerous to hear? | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 2:08 | comment | added | Hack-R | Yes, but it comes out the end with the earbuds. Seriously. Back in the early 00's the recording industry and government used to put high pitch horrific noises in mp3's to give headaches and psychological / neurological damage to students attempting to listen to music downloaded without paying royalties. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 23:02 | comment | added | jpmc26 | Sometimes I think this SE makes a few people paranoid. =) | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 20:32 | comment | added | user114541 | Oh yes. Earworms can be quite nasty. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 20:32 | comment | added | user1306322 | What about the rumored future iphone-compatible headphones with built-in DAC? Or is it too soon to say anything about them? | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 19:20 | comment | added | pericynthion | You might want to wipe the earbuds down with rubbing alcohol - that's the only possible way you could get an infection! | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 19:17 | comment | added | GuitarPicker | I'd worry more about the USB port than the Bluetooth. A lot of USB devices use generalized controllers which can be reprogrammed to do more than originally intended. This usually comes into play when someone decides to do something like charge their e-Cigarette with their computer or from flash drives modified with BadUSB. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 18:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/743150326274998273 | ||
| Jun 15, 2016 at 17:07 | answer | added | Ross Presser | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 16:47 | answer | added | JRCharney | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 16:45 | vote | accept | tonychow0929 | ||
| Jun 15, 2016 at 15:38 | answer | added | Nzall | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 13:06 | history | asked | tonychow0929 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |