Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval
On Monday 22 June 2015 12:49:19 Stuart Longland wrote:
> On 22/06/15 12:38, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> >> Tim Beelen writes:
> >>> How do I find out which application is accessing what device?
> >>
> >> It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a
> >> virtual device. It works even when the computer is off. Doesn't matter
> >> if your machine has a microphone or even any audio input capability.
> >
> > I would truly like to know how they could manage that.
>
> All it needs is a little sprinkling of paranoia to do its work. :-)
Just because I am paranoid, that does not mean they are not, in fact, after
me.
However, this seems like a pretty thin hoax to me. On phones, however, this
can and is being done.
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