Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-25 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 24 June 2015 18:51:24 Jose Martinez wrote: NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt. That just means you have to add your own!!:-D Actually, it stands for Native Client (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client). It is Google's attempt to re-invent javascript :-)

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:57:49PM +0200, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2015 18:51:24 Jose Martinez wrote: NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt. That just means you have to add your own!!:-D Actually, it stands for

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-24 Thread Jose Martinez
NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt. That just means you have to add your own!!:-D On 06/22/2015 11:18 PM, Tim Beelen wrote: Wow, thanks! An actual thing I can try. I also found out in the mean time that Chromium does not come with/is not compiled with NaCl enabled (whatever

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Tim Beelen wrote: Is it true? Is Google actively listening in on my conversations? Google is if you're using google now, but chromium on Debian is not. No, It has to be activated manually. One can use NOW

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Tim Beelen wrote: Is it true? Is Google actively listening in on my conversations? Google is if you're using google now, but chromium on Debian is not. Apparently this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 See

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Jose Martinez
Say, maybe a tin-foil hat for the affected system could be designed to prevent this from happening?? :-D On 06/22/2015 05:25 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:38:30PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread David Baron
On Monday 22 June 2015 12:49:19 Stuart Longland wrote: On 22/06/15 12:38, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:38:30PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a virtual device. It works even when the

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:36:50 +0300 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Hello David, Just because I am paranoid, that does not mean they are not, in fact, after me. If they *are* after you, you're not paranoid. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Riley Baird
How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a virtual device. It works even when the computer is off. Doesn't matter if your machine has a microphone or even any audio input capability. I

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:14:23 +0100 Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:36:50 +0300 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Hello David, Just because I am paranoid, that does not mean they are not, in fact, after me. If they *are* after you, you're not paranoid.

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Tim Beelen
Wow, thanks! An actual thing I can try. I also found out in the mean time that Chromium does not come with/is not compiled with NaCl enabled (whatever that is) and that would prevent actual execution of the plugin. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of the tools to figure out what

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a virtual device. It works even when the computer is off. Doesn't matter if your machine has a

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-21 Thread Stuart Longland
On 22/06/15 12:38, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a virtual device. It works even when the computer is off.

Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-21 Thread Tim Beelen
Is it true? Is Google actively listening in on my conversations? Apparently this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 *Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-21 Thread John Hasler
Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a virtual device. It works even when the computer is off. Doesn't matter if your machine has a microphone or even any audio input capability. --