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It isn't just the actual device to worry about either. Even if the microphone is there for a legitimate reason and welcomed by the user (such as on a smart phone) and the company itself is not abusing it, it is easy for a 3rd party app to hijack it. Something as benign as a news or weather app can be sending your data back to some agency or a foreign entity w/o your knowledge.
It is even beyond that: I went to buy an adapter the other day that will allow you to project your iPhone onto a TV with HDMI (yes I know about Bluetooth, but I refused to buy a smart TV because of concerns of "spying" etc.), and there was a much cheaper version of it from a Chinese company, but it required you to "just check the box that this is a trusted device". WTF?
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And yet when I bought the one from Apple I didn't need to trust it, and trusted devices can make changes and access certain things based on your security and permissions settings.
You sound like a guy walking around who China and the CIA can hear and see everything you do from your phone, smart TV, Siri etc.. :)
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[–] HAESisalie ago (edited ago)
It isn't just the actual device to worry about either. Even if the microphone is there for a legitimate reason and welcomed by the user (such as on a smart phone) and the company itself is not abusing it, it is easy for a 3rd party app to hijack it. Something as benign as a news or weather app can be sending your data back to some agency or a foreign entity w/o your knowledge.
It is even beyond that: I went to buy an adapter the other day that will allow you to project your iPhone onto a TV with HDMI (yes I know about Bluetooth, but I refused to buy a smart TV because of concerns of "spying" etc.), and there was a much cheaper version of it from a Chinese company, but it required you to "just check the box that this is a trusted device". WTF?
[–] 16908039? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
trusted device just allows it to send and recieve information, nigger. Of course you need to do that to use an adaptor.
[–] HAESisalie ago (edited ago)
And yet when I bought the one from Apple I didn't need to trust it, and trusted devices can make changes and access certain things based on your security and permissions settings. You sound like a guy walking around who China and the CIA can hear and see everything you do from your phone, smart TV, Siri etc.. :)