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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by pacala on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:18PM (#19411041)
So how do I block the microphone on my MacBook?
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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by PowerfulWizard on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:29PM (#19411093)
Zuckerberg released a photo once where he had a piece of tape over the microphone hole on the size. I don't know what the effect is, but it would be easy to test.
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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by Pocketknife on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:58PM (#19411233)
It would muffle it slightly. It would still give an attacker perfectly usable sound.
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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by mathrawka on Saturday March 16, 2019 @08:33PM (#19411382)
The muffled sound is enough to prevent acoustic keylogging from working properly though.

https://www.davidsalomon.name/CompSec/auxiliary/KybdEmanatio...

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