Security quote of the year, from @rupertg, on BadBIOS, the audio-subsystem-communicating virus

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Just how threatening is BadBIOS, the virus that allegedly communicates through PCs' mic/speakers? Bruce Schneier is unsure, but let Rupert Goodwins explain [FB thread link]:

On the list of security issues to worry about, it's somewhere down there alongside sentient raspberry jelly evolving the ability to eat your flash drives and telepathically transmit your banking codes to a Mafia-controlled suet pudding.