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I was thinking something similar... that would be a LOT of data being sent back continuously while Chrome was running, which for many people is 24/7. If you ha

by 51Cards 11y ago

I was thinking something similar... that would be a LOT of data being sent back continuously while Chrome was running, which for many people is 24/7. If you had an office of Chrome users the entire office pipe could be eaten up by what is essentially X number continuous VOIP calls.

metric10 11y ago
Right. There's no way this would go unnoticed on any enterprise or government network, and once noticed it would end the use Chrome in those environments. In fact it would have unimaginably huge consequences. It would mean huge numbers of CEOs and government officials in all countries where being bugged, all dependent on Google securely keeping millions of audio streams private. This doesn't pass the giggle test.
- dreamfactory2 11y ago
  Talking of the giggle test, millions of audio streams is just the kind of thing this was designed to snack on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center Regardless, the black box aspect means this can be targeted to high value individuals and could even be limited to their home or mobile networks. Then again, it's somewhat irrelevant since all sysadmins are already legally owned by security services and sworn to secrecy by the current legal frameworks, no cloak and dagger required. And it would be hard to believe that any competent foreign intelligence org hadn't fully infested such juicy targets as google and high value corporate networks long ago. There's an old rule that you shouldn't write down anything you wouldn't want to hear read out in a court of law. Same goes for online, and now for when you are in the vicinity of a mobile device.
Guvante 11y ago
It would be the worst possible implementation of the feature for a laundry list of reasons.
6d6b73 11y ago
First of all, they need to send only data when there is something to listen, so above a specific threshold. They can also compress the data. Second, I'm sure that if Google can handle traffic that's generated by youtube they can handle voip traffic.

by 51Cards 11y ago

metric10 11y ago

Right. There's no way this would go unnoticed on any enterprise or government network, and once noticed it would end the use Chrome in those environments. In fact it would have unimaginably huge consequences. It would mean huge numbers of CEOs and government officials in all countries where being bugged, all dependent on Google securely keeping millions of audio streams private. This doesn't pass the giggle test.

dreamfactory2 11y ago
Talking of the giggle test, millions of audio streams is just the kind of thing this was designed to snack on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center Regardless, the black box aspect means this can be targeted to high value individuals and could even be limited to their home or mobile networks. Then again, it's somewhat irrelevant since all sysadmins are already legally owned by security services and sworn to secrecy by the current legal frameworks, no cloak and dagger required. And it would be hard to believe that any competent foreign intelligence org hadn't fully infested such juicy targets as google and high value corporate networks long ago. There's an old rule that you shouldn't write down anything you wouldn't want to hear read out in a court of law. Same goes for online, and now for when you are in the vicinity of a mobile device.

Guvante 11y ago

It would be the worst possible implementation of the feature for a laundry list of reasons.

6d6b73 11y ago

First of all, they need to send only data when there is something to listen, so above a specific threshold. They can also compress the data. Second, I'm sure that if Google can handle traffic that's generated by youtube they can handle voip traffic.