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You mean like the microphone found in almost every laptop, tablet, or phone? I guess the difference with this microphone is that it's listening to you all the
by comex 13y ago
You mean like the microphone found in almost every laptop, tablet, or phone?
I guess the difference with this microphone is that it's listening to you all the time by default, and that creeps some people out. But it's not sending your words over the network, and is not more likely to start doing so than any of the aforementioned devices (actually, much less, because of increased security); it's just pattern matching for the word "Xbox". Kind of like the initial worries over Gmail "reading your email" to target ads: I predict that this too will peter out once people start actually using the product, albeit perhaps never die completely.
(For the record, the fact that Gmail messages can also be read by law enforcement under some circumstances is both a serious issue and irrelevant to the analogy.)
- Dylan16807 13y agoI can install my own OS on laptop, tablet, or phone. Or remove the microphone without anything breaking.
- comex 13y agoIt's extremely difficult to remove the microphone from any of those things.
- Dylan16807 13y agoOh, to be clear I mostly meant removing the mic on a laptop. And it's pretty easy to open a laptop, just takes some screwdrivers. Or you can take a pin and stab the microphone until it no longer functions. No extreme difficulty here.
- LaurelCrowned 13y agoIt's possible to have a software based microphone coded into whatever operating system. Speakers can also be used as a microphone. There is software out there that can record sound without any actual microphone.
- bashinator 13y agoI would really like more details about this software.
- hobs 13y agohttp://beyerdynamicheadphones.danielcadams.com/how-to-use-earbuds-as-microphones/ http://beyerdynamicheadphones.danielcadams.com/how-to-use-ea... Not any speaker, but you can use some headphones as microphones very easily.
- bashinator 13y agoOh, OK - I knew about that trick. I thought you were referring to the internal speakers on a laptop being usable as a covert audio recorder.
- Dylan16807 13y agoHow many actually have sound cards sophisticated enough to feed the speakers into the ADC?
- sliverstorm 13y agoShit, I thought OnStar has already been doing the "listening to you 24/7" thing for years now?