solst/ICE told BleepingComputer that the idea to develop an open-source Chirp tool came after watching a demo of two LLMs talking to each other using ggwave-generated audio signals. For those wanting to play with the online Chirp application and are worried about privacy, the developer told BleepingComputer that the application is hosted on GitHub pages, and all functions happen on the client side and are never sent to a server. A new open-source tool named 'Chirp' transmits data, such as text messages, between computers (and smartphones) through different audio tones. Bill Toulas Bill Toulas is a tech writer and infosec news reporter with over a decade of experience working on various online publications, covering open-source, Linux, malware, data breach incidents, and hacks. The developer also told us that Chirp currently has no error correction or redundancy, so the error rate could get impractically high if the background noise is too loud or the speaker sound isn't high enough. Developed by Georgi Gerganov, ggwave is a compact data-over-sound library that facilitates the transmission and reception of short data messages through sound waves. Other microphone-equipped computers running Chirp may capture the sound and translate the message back into text. The tool, developed by cybersecurity researcher solst/ICE, maps each character into a specific sound frequency and plays it along with real-time visualization. One practical limitation of Chirp is that it stops listening for messages when transmitting, so anything received during that time is essentially lost. Chirp.io, owned by Sonos since 2020, did something similar, facilitating seamless device-to-device communication without traditional wireless connections. The project allows users to "sneak" messages between devices in a fun way, and it's available both online and as a standalone app available for free through GitHub.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:20:11 +0000