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I find it fascinating people are so concerned about cameras. I am much more concerned about microphones. And I’ll betcha you’re typing on something with an alwa

I find it fascinating people are so concerned about cameras. I am much more concerned about microphones. And I’ll betcha you’re typing on something with an always on microphone right now.

altacc 4y ago
First it’s about what’s easily controllable. Second it’s about threat impact of the release of any media taken from my house. I am very boring and so audio of me asking my wife what she wants for dinner for the 15,000th time wouldn’t cause any reputational damage compared to having naked photos of us shared on Facebook.
- b0afc375b5 4y ago
  I guess it depends. I am alone and almost never say anything, but I'm almost always wearing only underpants 23/7. Perhaps for other people, home conversations are more sensitive and they dress sensibly inside the house.
- fnordpiglet 4y ago
  Have you never read a credit card out over the phone? Your social security number or other sensitive identification? Discussed private medical information with a provider? I think people overestimate how boring their conversations are. It’s not about blackmail usually, although that’s what folks care about for video. But would you really be blackmailed by a picture of you on the toilet? I might be mildly embarrassed but I won’t go very far to prevent it from being published. But I talk about sensitive stuff quite often on the phone, or when I work from home.
  - altacc 4y ago
    No, I really don't do any of those things. Everything is online these days, which is a different attack surface. I also don't think that my iPhone is listening to me, for advertising or blackmail purposes.
taoufix 4y ago
Because having a picture of you using the toilet shared online is far worse than the audio of the sound you made during that bathroom trip.
- fnordpiglet 4y ago
  I’m more worried about the details of my credit card. Personally I’d be willing to sell a video feed with audio of my using the bathroom for extra cash if there’s a big market for it. But I know some people are embarrassed someone might learn they have bodily functions.
boring_twenties 4y ago
There is no microphone at all attached to my computer...
ccn0p 4y ago
ya for sure. but also imagine what a vacuum can learn about you from what it finds on your floors.

I find it fascinating people are so concerned about cameras. I am much more concerned about microphones. And I’ll betcha you’re typing on something with an always on microphone right now.

altacc 4y ago

First it’s about what’s easily controllable. Second it’s about threat impact of the release of any media taken from my house. I am very boring and so audio of me asking my wife what she wants for dinner for the 15,000th time wouldn’t cause any reputational damage compared to having naked photos of us shared on Facebook.

b0afc375b5 4y ago
I guess it depends. I am alone and almost never say anything, but I'm almost always wearing only underpants 23/7. Perhaps for other people, home conversations are more sensitive and they dress sensibly inside the house.
fnordpiglet 4y ago
Have you never read a credit card out over the phone? Your social security number or other sensitive identification? Discussed private medical information with a provider? I think people overestimate how boring their conversations are. It’s not about blackmail usually, although that’s what folks care about for video. But would you really be blackmailed by a picture of you on the toilet? I might be mildly embarrassed but I won’t go very far to prevent it from being published. But I talk about sensitive stuff quite often on the phone, or when I work from home.
- altacc 4y ago
  No, I really don't do any of those things. Everything is online these days, which is a different attack surface. I also don't think that my iPhone is listening to me, for advertising or blackmail purposes.

taoufix 4y ago

Because having a picture of you using the toilet shared online is far worse than the audio of the sound you made during that bathroom trip.

fnordpiglet 4y ago
I’m more worried about the details of my credit card. Personally I’d be willing to sell a video feed with audio of my using the bathroom for extra cash if there’s a big market for it. But I know some people are embarrassed someone might learn they have bodily functions.

boring_twenties 4y ago

There is no microphone at all attached to my computer...

ccn0p 4y ago

ya for sure. but also imagine what a vacuum can learn about you from what it finds on your floors.