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Your phone microphone can be enabled remotely and the means to do so can be controlled through the baseband processor. The Snowden leaks revealed that this had
by rando444 7y ago
Your phone microphone can be enabled remotely and the means to do so can be controlled through the baseband processor.
The Snowden leaks revealed that this had been an attack vector available and used for years.
The method they were using has since been patched, but one would be foolish to think that it has been impossible for interested parties to have found another way to do the same.
- windexh8er 7y agoI don't think my point was well understood based on your counterargument. What I'm saying is the expectation of a smart phone is that voice assistance is an option. That was my point to OP. Smart speakers are useless sans listening. They are not one and the same in their use case or normal operation. I'm also not disputing there are baseband controls a nefarious entity could abuse but I'm saying that people who choose to trust Amazon with always listening devices vs a smart phone are not comparing apples to apples.