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onehandle

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Fri Jan 24, 2014, 12:46 PM Jan 2014

Google Chrome "Bugs" Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations [View all]

While we’ve all grown accustomed to chatting with Siri, talking to our cars, and soon maybe even asking our glasses for directions, talking to our computers still feels weird. But now, Google is putting their full weight behind changing this. There’s no clearer evidence to this, than visiting Google.com, and seeing a speech recognition button right there inside Google’s most sacred real estate - the search box.

Yet all this effort may now be compromised by a new exploit which lets malicious sites turn Google Chrome into a listening device, one that can record anything said in your office or your home, as long as Chrome is still running.



http://talater.com/chrome-is-listening
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