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Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth

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Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth

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Post by 300bps »

thestepafter wrote: post #6
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No What now?

Go to chrome://settings/ Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.

I have the exact same settings in chrome://voicesearch/ as nakedrobot2 but my "Ok Google" setting was already off.

From chrome://voicesearch/:

NaCl Enabled Yes

Microphone Yes

Audio Capture Allowed Yes

From chrome://settings/ under the Search heading, "Enable 'Ok Google' to start a voice search" is unchecked and has always been unchecked.

Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth

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Post by bhauer »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #5
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No What now?

If you're running Chromium: Re-install with the opt-out flag. If you're runnning Google Chrome: Weep.

> If you're runnning Google Chrome: Weep.

I metaphorically did. Then I closed Chrome and tabbed back to my Firefox window.

This feels like I had an Amazon Echo dropped by my house, plugged in, and then shoved behind a book on the shelf so that I wouldn't see it. Ethics be damned.

Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth

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Post by fweespeech »

thestepafter wrote: post #6
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No What now?

Go to chrome://settings/ Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.

That doesn't work, it is still enabled under the voice search ;)

Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth

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Post by fweespeech »

Mithaldu wrote: post #4

This is pretty funny. He complains that Chromium managed to "bypass this audit-then-build process", by downloading stuff afterwards, while ignoring that this happening already shows that the audit process is completely useless since it failed to recognize and reject the code that would do this. There's a TSA joke somewhere in this.

The audit process assumes the upstream maintainers aren't malicious actors attempting to actively bypass the process:

> After upgrading chromium to 43, I noticed that when it is running and immediately after the machine is on-line it silently starts downloading "Chrome Hotword Shared Module" extension, which contains a binary without source code. There seems no opt-out config.

They don't have the resources to do a full audit on all the packages:

https://www.debian.org/security/audit/

> Due to the sheer size of the current Debian release it is infeasible for a small team to be able to audit all the packages, so there is a system of prioritizing packages which are more security sensitive.

Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth

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Post by feld »

joesmo wrote: post #9
thestepafter wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go to chrome://settings/ Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.

Which is no longer an option.

What version are you running? Do you have Google as your default search engine? If not, the toggle disappears.
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