I just bought a NanoKVM Lite on AliExpress, and it does not have the infamous microphone on it.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

I just bought a NanoKVM Lite on AliExpress, and it does not have the infamous microphone on it. The pad for it is unpopulated.

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@ryanc Nifty, why would they have a microphone? Perhaps it's a touch paranoid, but I'd still suggest replacing the software with one that definitely won't phone home.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@StarkRG They had a microphone in a previous revision because it's built on top of a dev board they were already making that had one.

Regardless of the software, it's going on a VLAN that denies egress traffic by default.