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Posted on 06/23/2015 1:03:36 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Privacy advocates claim always-listening component was involuntarily activated within Chromium, potentially exposing private conversations
Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.
First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.
It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission.
“Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,” said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder, in a blog post. “Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.” Google to exclude 'revenge porn' from internet searches Read more
The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser. But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be “black box”, not part of the open source audit process.
“We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does,” said Falkvinge.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Mthrfkrs...
Google is on POS organization.
>> Except that cute babe sitting in the convertable next to you at the light.
I’m happily married; I have to run ‘em off *somehow* if I want to stay that way.
I sent him a Snowden...
Stoopet Bass turds hijacked my letter “e” in my previous post...
I have a webcam that I use for the occasional work from home. It’s a USB type and it stays on a shelf unhooked until needed.
The laptop stays taped. I go months and don’t even turn it on.
A few people at work with laptops and embedded camera tape theirs.
Did you both catch this about Chrome. . . perhaps your ping lists should know. . .
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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My older laptop had a switch on the side to turn off the internet, now it is a software key. who believes it?
> My older laptop had a switch on the side to turn off the internet...
AHA!!! So YOU'RE the one who turned off the Internet the other night!! There's a lot of people who wanna have a talk with ya...
(Just kidding)
The Opera and Aviator browsers are also chromium based. The article does not address them.
you can always go for the gold.....oh wait - you already do LOL
> My older laptop had a switch on the side to turn off the internet...
AHA!!! So YOU’RE the one who turned off the Internet the other night!! There’s a lot of people who wanna have a talk with ya...
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the Soup has powers you never dreamed of...
I’ve been saying this for a couple years, coworkers now believe me and I can put my tinfoil hat down..for now...
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Apparently so!!
Is it a new car? If so, the world knows you are a bugger miner.
Google = The public, commercial arm, of the NSA.
You need to look up the definition of buggering someone, mate, let alone mining them. :)
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