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Add note about covert channel feasability
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One site could transmit information by intentionally causing audio glitches
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(by causing very high CPU usage, for example) while the other site
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could detect these glitches.
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Note: This covert channel depends on specific system characteristics.
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It typically requires a shared linearization point (such as an OS or browser
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audio mixer) and callbacks that are effectively synchronous from that point,
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without intermediate buffering that would flatten load spikes.
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<h5 id="AudioPlaybackStats-mitigations">Mitigations</h5>
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To inhibit the usage of such a covert channel, the API implements these
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mitigations.

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