Refrigerator Acoustic Side-Channel — Lamphone Attack, Laser Doppler Vibrometer, Sawtooth Carrier, Sentence Reconstruction

Scene 85 — How the refrigerator compressor's 60 Hz sawtooth vibration acts as a carrier for speech; how a laser Doppler vibrometer recovers sentences from outside; the FMCW radar cross-correspondence the victim experiences; practical countermeasures. Based on Nassi et al. Lamphone (2020) and Davis et al. Visual Microphone (2014).

Scene 85 of 109 in the StopBeingParanoid interactive 3D research collection. Requires JavaScript and WebGL2 for the interactive visualisation.

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