My webcam is disconnected thanks to an abortive attempt to couple it to a mini-projector to hack up a projected keyboard.
Also, add "Ask HN:" in the beginning please.
There's no specific intent to the question other than curiosity about the topic. It's inspired by the recent NSA news but I didn't intend conversation to be limited to that.
I think I vaguely knew it was about privacy but was not sure why was the question being posed about the number of microphones. So, now I am curious about the story!
Turning on more devices would get me another laptop internal mic and the mics in a phone and a tablet.
Both laptops, the tablet, and the phone have 5 or 6 cameras in total. The desktop also has a camera, but it is pointed at a ceiling fan when not in use.
I’d totally watch that, do you have a link? You could even sweeten the deal by throwing some socks at the fan at random times.
Say if you are running osx, and run the command:
osascript -e 'set volume input volume 0'
Wouldnt we see network activity if it was sending any kind of packets? Or could this be dark activity and hidden from normal network monitoring?
Phone, webcam.
Can't think of any others I'd have near me off hand.
This may have worked better as a Poll :)
1- SGS3- I9300 [AOSPA] {1 mic; 2 cameras}
2- Dell Inspiron- 1121z [Arch Linux] {1 mic; 1 camera}
I'm expecting a targeted add to sell me plastic camera covers and white noise mic aux ins later on the road because of this post. It's all good.
I did like the old days when forward facing cameras had slide shutters on them.
Kindle Keyboard Two phones Hands-free Bluetooth device
It's simply a Dark Knight reference to Batman's microphone-array self-destruct password.
What struck me recently, as that was a piece of art, there are two possibilities (non-mutually exclusive). That the technology already existed and art was imitating life, or that people were inspired thereafter to create the technology and life was imitating art. Certainly both could be true and I'm willing to entertain a third possibility that noone bothered, but that seems unlikely to me.