Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any kind of consent from the people eavesdropped on. In official statements, Google shrugged off the practice with what amounts to “we can do that”.
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Anonymous2015-06-21 15:28
Thank goodness I don't use Chrome.
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Anonymous2015-06-21 15:56
I'm glad I never touched chromium
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Anonymous2015-06-21 20:51
So basically this module is triggered when Muhammad says "allah akbar" or "kaboom"?
If you ain't terrorist or traitor, you should be perfectly safe and thank government for protecting the peace.
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Anonymous2015-06-21 21:22
A new thing. When people say ``ok Google now'', loudly proclaim the forbidden sentence that cannot be said on the internet in the US. Sorry, I can't type it here without causing trouble for myself or admin-kun.
But here's the acronym. Please don't type it. IWTKTPOTUSOA
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smelly farts2015-06-21 21:36
smelly farts
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shitty sharts2015-06-21 23:42
shitty sharts
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Anonymous2015-06-21 23:53
>>4 Nope. It's also triggered when you say "silver" or "gold" or "shemitah". They don't want the proles to own any precious metals or know about the coming economic collapse, and are quietly making these people disappear.
I'm posting from behind dual VPNs. I hope you are, for your own sake.
Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any kind of consent from the people eavesdropped on. In official statements, Google shrugged off the practice with what amounts to “we can do that”.
Joke's on them though, since as a rule I don't have conversations with 3d people, but I really do enjoy muttering antisemitic and racist nonsense as I code, which would hopefully become my legacy living in their machine learning algorithms!
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Anonymous2015-06-22 18:58
I really hate to give credit to the appers, but forcing programs to use a permission lists is something that the desktop sorely needs.
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Anonymous2015-06-22 18:59
>>17 You are a static typing proponent and that means you hate people.
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Anonymous2015-06-22 20:48
>>17 Don't give them too much credit, most permission lists on mobile suck huge dick. That's why simple apps want permission to read your emails.
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Anonymous2015-06-23 2:39
>>17 You forgot that your Android OS is controlled by Google, which doesn't need permission and can install anything it wants.
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Anonymous2015-06-23 3:05
>>17 Execute your apps as an unprivileged user that's not in the audio. video or wheel groups. No need to bring permission lists to the desktop.