Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!news From: me@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Microphone security Message-ID: <1990Sep26.105142.4905@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Date: 26 Sep 90 10:51:42 GMT References: <50910@brunix.UUCP> <555@wjh12.harvard.edu> Reply-To: me@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland Lines: 11 In article gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) writes: -->Is there any security to prevent me from switching on the built-in -->microphone and snooping on your private conversations over the -->internet? Not really: However, I do dim my room lights when on the Internet to be sure that no one can see what I'm doing.. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Jim Kiraly - me@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov - NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------