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> Eventually, our government could put cameras everywhere in our home I actually don't think that the government will have to do this, because as consumers we
by benevol 10y ago
> Eventually, our government could put cameras everywhere in our home
I actually don't think that the government will have to do this, because as consumers we do it already for them:
Have a notebook in your house? Nice, your camera may already be watching you and the mic listening to you.
Have a mobile phone? Nice, you are now under surveillance 24 hours a day. The 2 cameras can see, the mic (and now apparently even the speaker) can listen, your location is 100% tracked, the gyro can let hackers know via your current vibration profile if you're in a bus, train or car, etc.
All this could be partially prevented by hardware switches for each sensor. Are we consumers out on the street fighting against this and/or voting with our $$$ to prevent the loss of privacy?
- wallace_f 10y ago>All this could be partially prevented by hardware switches for each sensor. Do you know of anyone besides Bunnie Huang who is working on a project like this or something similar? Bunnie's concept is kind of similar with a hardware intercept on the device.
- benevol 10y ago> Bunnie Huang who is working on a project like this I don't know of this or any other such projects. Any such project needs to be on HN on a regular basis.
- gkafkg8y8 10y ago> All this could be partially prevented by hardware switches for each sensor. A few easy hacks for best-effort protection without destroying your hardware are a piece of tape over the camera and setting your sound input to something quiet, like Soundflower in macOS or one of these for Windows or Linux: http://alternativeto.net/software/soundflower/ http://alternativeto.net/software/soundflower/