Not really? The format is well documented. Whether it is possible to include some sort of exploit depends on the client you use to play it, and if so, I doubt Microsoft or IBM would be the ones to do it.
if so, I doubt Microsoft or IBM would be the ones to do it.
Yeah Sony is much more likely!
Dave Plummer has a very interesting take on this since he was the dev manager for Windows CD Autorun at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWjq2SdzpI
And people talk about buying their phones.
Ironically their phones are pretty vanilla, very little bloatware.
I bought one of their phones after how much people rave about them. Cost me more than the equivalent Samsung or iPhone. It was a piece of shit with a shockingly mediocre camera considering Sony make the fucking sensor. Only good thing about it was the power button thumbprint scanner and even that’s a monkey’s paw feature because Sony having the patent is stopping anyone else doing it.
Meanwhile I think mine is a pretty good phone except for the side-facing fingerprint sensor, which is straight up incorrect and shouldn’t be done.
Then again I consider an audio jack to be an important feature and smartphone cameras as something you can safely skip in the feature matrix. My needs are somewhat unusual.
The fingerprint sensor is still bad, though. It’s extremely easy to accidentally touch it three times while fishing the phone out of your pocket. It should require a second of contact before trying to unlock the phone; that would make it vastly more usable.
I think your needs are more common than you think, considering i have the same needs as you.
So, there’s a fingerprint setting i had to turn on since i had the same issue as you. you have to press the power button then tap the sensor to unlock it. It’s called “Press to unlock with fingerprint” inside the security settings.
While the format is proprietary, the actual decoding and encoding processes can be open source. Like how a box can be locked, but everyone has the keys to open it and see what’s inside.
What’s proprietary about a format older than 25 years, meaning all possible patents have elapsed?
Proprietary is independent of patents. Different systems. There already exists open licensed, but patent encumbered formats or their inverse. WAV is proprietary, but again, is fully documented and there exists open licensed encoders and decoders.
I have no idea why it still remains proprietary, but its an old format, and IBM/MS probably just don’t really care about it since it’s last update was over a decade ago.
What makes it proprietary if it is documented and free to use?
WAV is also braindead simple, effectively just a stream of raw PCM data. It would be really hard to hide any sort of payload in it.
It is? Isn’t it just a raw PCM signal?
Yes but with a container wrapper specifying format, padding and where the frame chunks start and stop.
Two container wrappers. For maximum inefficiency.
It’s such a Microsoft/IBM format. “Let’s use this structural wrapper format! And then just define a format inside one gigantic chunk inside it!”
When Apple had already created AIFF years before and actually used the structure of the wrapper to implement the metadata. And also adopted an open structural format that already existed on Amiga.
The text file of audio
Yep, and the format is ancient and free to use now.
I’m curious what would even be “snuck into it” ?
