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Google dismisses eavesdropping threat in Chrome feature |
January 23, 2014
Google said there’s no threat from a speech recognition feature in its Chrome browser that a developer said could be used to listen in on users.Web developer Tal Ater wrote he found the multiple bugs in Chrome while working on a JavaScript speech recognition software library he maintains, called “annyang.”He created an exploit that could allow a website to continue accessing a computer’s microphone after a person thinks they’ve left a website. Some websites are enabled to use speech recognition, where the website has access to voice commands from a computer’s microphone.”It may seem I have shot myself in the foot by exposing this,” Ater wrote. “But I have no doubt that by exposing this, we can ensure that these issues will be resolved soon.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2090640/google-dismisses-eavesdropping-threat-in-chrome-feature.html#tk.rss_all
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