The danger and vulnerability of eavesdropping by using loud-speakers

Abstract

The development of electronic devices has recently led to many problems such as personal information rape and leakage of business information. Conventional loud-speakers have been generally used to output devices. It can be, however, operated as a micro-phone which was abused as a means for eavesdropping since the speaker and microphone have basically the equivalent structure. Most importantly, the general peoples are not aware of the approaching danger about using speaker as microphone. And, traditional eavesdropping detection equipment does not check the attack. In this paper, we demonstrate that there is a serious danger and vulnerability in using loud-speakers since they can be used as eavesdropping devices.