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Title: Bug In The Chrome Browser
Post by: bama57 on January 22, 2014, 01:53:45 PM
Google's Chrome Web browser offers voice control for touchless interface use, but a bug in this system makes it possible for websites to "eavesdrop" on you, reports Gizmodo.

This flaw was originally discovered by a web developer named Tal Ater, who writes that "[M]alicious sites can activate your microphone and listen in on anything said around your computer, even after you’ve left those sites[...] Conversations, meetings and phone calls next to your computer may be recorded and compromised."

Here's a video that demonstrates the bug in action.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chrome-eavesdropping-bug-2014-1


Title: Re: Bug In The Chrome Browser
Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 22, 2014, 05:39:13 PM
That is scary.