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November 20, 2002

Speaking of Listening

Greg "LinuxMan" Cavanagh points out this tidbit from the December issue of Linux Journal:

...the PC speaker in post-2.5.31 kernels may now be used as a microphone. This is new and weird. As Jos Hulzink put it on the linux-kernel mailing list, "2.5.32 will go into the history books as the kernel that implemented voice recognition for all AT class computers .."

Greg comments: "Umm, you mean every machine broken into is now a listening device. Wow."

If he's right, this is spooky. Fortunately, our Republican government is fiercely committed to civil liberties so there's no chance this could be abused.

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 20, 2002 04:26 PM

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>>Umm, you mean every machine broken into is now a listening device. Wow
Great!! So there will be much less trash! Everything gets a second chance... :)

Posted by: Matthias | January 23, 2003 07:09 PM

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