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Ok, who wants to be the first person to build a usb powered 'thumper' which sits on your desk and raises the noise floor for vibrations and defeats this attack?


How about we just not buy products with a microphone or accelerometer that doesn't also have a hard cutout switch?


That would be nice, but given that threat exists, paranoid people will want a way to mitigate it.


s/paranoid/people who handle information of any value/




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