-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/2016 10:47 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
How many lusers put tape over their laptop camera lens, but neglect to cut the pins on the microphone? How many people even know their shiny
Wouldn't this kill the main functionality of the hardware (smart) phone?
OT: is enough tinfoil around hardware good enough Faraday cage? ;)
I would have thought it obvious that I was talking about laptops, where people (even Fox Muldur per a recent X Files episode) actually do that tape thing. Everyone knows that a phone has a built in microphone, nobody forgets that. Portable workstation computers? Not so much, except those who do use them routinely for teleconferencing. Hence the comic aspect of tape over the lens with a live microphone ignored. If one is concerned about being tracked during a specific time frame via a "smart" phone, the solutions include: Leave it home, ask a friend to take it on a trip with them, or pull the battery. Which to use depends on the cause of that concern and other unique parameters. Since user surveillance, tracking and profiling is commercially valuable to the vendors of IOT gadgetry, software solutions will be placebos, or at best an arms race with the vast majority of end users on the loser's bench for the duration. Fact of the matter is, the most practical and reliable means of addressing privacy concerns related to the "internet of things" is at the gross hardware level DIY level, by disabling sensor and/or comms components where and as the user deems this a good trade off. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXKAgkAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuqd7UIAMw4p7A+n9h+SIxhCaxJ9afu KAo817i5lun2RivghLHTMXyRWRM+gcETDdBMHLMK1XomlMWzuUO8btFV3A3SIHct amF6bCHtQwOs3etAcQwzIMaz5JLIrSK69nPwXwMtouvsXD5XC1D2qSa47iWXj1ws 2aCufG4FGdVe/gxJ81MD1X5xZ/CylN4fTjIIgrAXvkCkHQc/WccuuUm4zrumqwAJ wtG1mwL5PWNUp7tpmA67km4vVvM0WT84eyKOEkzV/QNP9AOKHmHOmGEL3KVfPKv9 Fp+8aQ8nkSM36Jmp/L/FdMqZ9STTsY7yWHC9T8FutCNYRMhzPk+jfL3hc52iW+U= =ORh/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----