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It'd be nice to state the intention of the question or elaborate it a little. Also, add "Ask HN:" in the beginning please.
There's no specific intent to the question other than curiosity about the topic. It's inspired by the recent NSA news but I didn't intend conversation to be limited to that.
Phone, webcam.
Can't think of any others I'd have near me off hand.
Lucius Fox
Why is this getting down-voted? It's simply a Dark Knight reference to Batman's microphone-array self-destruct password.
What struck me recently, as that was a piece of art, there are two possibilities (non-mutually exclusive). That the technology already existed and art was imitating life, or that people were inspired thereafter to create the technology and life was imitating art. Certainly both could be true and I'm willing to entertain a third possibility that noone bothered, but that seems unlikely to me.
Turning on more devices would get me another laptop internal mic and the mics in a phone and a tablet.
Both laptops, the tablet, and the phone have 5 or 6 cameras in total. The desktop also has a camera, but it is pointed at a ceiling fan when not in use.
Say if you are running osx, and run the command:
osascript -e 'set volume input volume 0'
I did like the old days when forward facing cameras had slide shutters on them.
It'd be nice to state the intention of the question or elaborate it a little. Also, add "Ask HN:" in the beginning please.
Added to the title. Thanks. There's no specific intent to the question other than curiosity about the topic. It's inspired by the recent NSA news but I didn't intend conversation to be limited to that.
I think I vaguely knew it was about privacy but was not sure why was the question being posed about the number of microphones. So, now I am curious about the story!