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From: scott@NIC.GAC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Microphone security
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Date: 29 Sep 90 18:22:24 GMT
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absinthe@milton.u.washington.edu (Daniel Faken) writes:
#In article <8259@milton.u.washington.edu> cyliao@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:
#>In article <8145@milton.u.washington.edu> absinthe@milton.u.washington.edu (Daniel Faken) writes:
#>>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!
#>
#>	Good idea on plugging in a 1/8 plug, but no! don't plug in a 
#>	a headphone! A headphone is really not much different from a 
...
#Cover the headphones up with a pillow! Play decieving messages into the
#microphone port! Start up a NeXT version of those 1-900 services, and play
#inviting messages (while recording your clients responses, no less!)!
#Who knows? Maybe the resonant frequency of the NeXT is such that all speech
#is translated into Antarctican...and then uuencoded!
#Good point, nonetheless.

and even more useful - go out to ShopKo, buy a 5$ set of headphone,
and lop off anything past the plug?  Or, if you're really budget-
conscious, head out to Radio Shack, and get a $2.50 4mm-1/4 converter,
and pop that in there.  No speaker==no microphone.

scott hess
scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	(Stuart)
NeXT Campus Consultant		(Not much, really)
GAC Undergrad			(Horrid.  Simply Horrid.  I mean the work!)