It has been revealed that Google left a major security issue in the Chrome after the introduction of speech recognition several months ago.
If you happen to visit a malicious site and to give her the permission to hear your voice, so that by saying specific keywords you can perform various tasks, then you are most likely in trouble.
Developer Tal Ater has discovered, that such websites can continue to listen to you even after the microphone υποτίθεται ότι απενεργοποιήθηκε με το κλείσιμο της καρτέλας. Δείτε στο παρακάτω βίντεο πως η ευπάθεια αυτή μπορεί να δράσει.
But the whole story creates a huge problem αν χρησιμοποιείτε συχνά τη δυνατότητα αναγνώρισης ομιλίας. Ωστόσο, υπάρχει ένας πολύ εύκολος τρόπος για να βεβαιωθείτε ότι δεν σας κατασκοπεύουν και ότι όντως έχει κλείσει το μικρόφωνο.Πέρα βέβαια από το κλείσετε τον διακόπτη του μικροφώνου σας, αν φυσικά υπάρχει ή ακόμα και να μην χρησιμοποιήσετε καθόλου αυτή την δυνατότητα του Chome.
Open Chrome, go to Settings (Settings), scroll down and select Show advanced settings (Show advanced settings). From there, go to Privacy (Privacy) and click the button content settings (Content Settings ). Once the new page appears, go to Inside (Media) .
From there, you can completely deny access to websites for your camera and your microphone. The alternative is to continue Chrome asking you whenever a website requires access to the webcam and microphone. Clicking in the box Manage exceptions (Manage exceptions) you allow yourself to see exactly which websites have the ability to listen to you.
You have the option to delete or modify their settings so you have full control over which sites will access your data.
