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.

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