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Distrust of a smartphone's mic can be mitigated by epoxying the microphone, or just ripping it off the board, and it's still a functional portable computer. Bu
by dingaling 8y ago
Distrust of a smartphone's mic can be mitigated by epoxying the microphone, or just ripping it off the board, and it's still a functional portable computer.
But to consider further: if you're in a situation where you have to worry about your smartphone grassing on you then you probably won't keep it powered on. Or will keep it in a Faraday case or whatever. In other words you'll be considering all attack vectors and behaving appropriately.
Whereas Amazon or Google could flip the notional 'record all' switch on their assistant devices on a whim and you'd be none the wiser.
- mikeash 8y agoIf the commenter has disabled their smartphone mic as you say then I’ll give them a pass. I suspect they haven’t. Why can’t Google flip the “record all” switch in Android on a whim?
- umanwizard 8y agoIf someone were in a situation where it made sense to put their phone in a Faraday cage, wouldn't you expect them to do the same with their Amazon Echo?