Bro, they don’t. The OS manages microphone access. If you allow it, yes, they may spy. But even then, the OS visible tells you via an icon that the microphone is used. It is the plain written truth, that we can not argue around. There has been a lot security research around this, stuff has been audited, Android is even open source, and no one has ever found even a hint of this being possible.
Echos and Google Homes are an entirely different story because they operate their microphones by design, their entire system works on always listening, and they don’t hide that.
Bro, they don’t. The OS manages microphone access. If you allow it, yes, they may spy. But even then, the OS visible tells you via an icon that the microphone is used. It is the plain written truth, that we can not argue around. There has been a lot security research around this, stuff has been audited, Android is even open source, and no one has ever found even a hint of this being possible.
Echos and Google Homes are an entirely different story because they operate their microphones by design, their entire system works on always listening, and they don’t hide that.
Yeah, they actually do. But keep dickriding for a corporation that couldn’t care less if you, or anyone else, lives or dies.
Unless you work for them…
Do you have a mechanism to work around the OS permissions model that broadly works across handsets?
I can find you a buyer for that info and we’ll split 40/60. Dead serious. Cash, and no questions. Just prove that it works.
Yeah, I do:
Don’t buy the fucking things.