[ale] Paranoia, FUD, slow day...

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 16:13:33 EST 2007


On 1/29/07, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I got to thinking about the recent info regarding the FBI's capability
> (via Mobile providers) to remotely enable the microphone in a cellphone
> without the user's knowledge.   How do we know the same thing isn't
> possible via our ISPs and our PCs?


Wasn't there already a PC virus that enabled the webcams of infected PCs?

Scarier - can the el-cheapo piezo speaker built into mobos work as a micorphone?



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