[Swordmaker]

Snowden claims the NSA can surreptitiously turn on iPhones remotely and turn on microphones and listen in, activate Apps. . . IF they've intercepted your iPhone and implanted it with hardware —PING!

Apple NSA Security Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[HamiltonJay]

ANY speaker can be a microphone, this isn’t news. The vibration of the speaker when noises are being made by something around it is enough to generate its own electricity and that can be used to power a transmitter.

This isn’t something unique to any smart phone, its been around for just less time than the modern speaker system existed.

[IncPen]

It seems if someone were really worried about their phone being ‘tapped’, simply putting a piece of scotch tape over the microphone would render it useless.