Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!absinthe From: absinthe@milton.u.washington.edu (Daniel Faken) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Microphone security Message-ID: <8145@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 26 Sep 90 14:28:37 GMT References: <555@wjh12.harvard.edu> <1990Sep26.105142.4905@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 25 In article <1990Sep26.105142.4905@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> me@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) writes: >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.. >-- heh. Actually, if my sources are not double-agents, I hear that plugging something into the microphone port will automatically switch off (or become the actual source for recording) the built-in microphone. So, just get an ol' 1/8" plug, say, from some stereo headphones and, voila, you have less reason to be paranoid! Personally, though, I think this is just another facet of the large, world- domination scheme created by NeXT to turn us all into consumer slaves through the gui. [including file: /altdimension7/'heaven'/God/Christian/.signature...] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faithfully and unerringly saving our civilization from certain demise.. absinthe@milton.u.washington.edu | "Don't get Odd, get Even" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The opinions (and/or facts) expressed herein may represent most of the student body and administratium here at the UW. But then again, they may not.