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Old 24th January 2014, 08:17   #1
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Default Hackers go for speech recognition in Chrome

Hackers have worked out a way to use the speech recognition in Chrome to spy on you.

Apparently, the method involves switching on your microphone using bugs in the Chrome browser.

The exploit was discovered by developer Tal Ater who found it while working on annyang, a popular JavaScript Speech Recognition library.

This allowed him to find multiple bugs in Chrome, and to come up with an exploit which combines all.

He reported the exploit to Google's security team in private on September 13. By September 19, their engineers have identified the bugs and suggested fixes. On September 24, a patch which fixes the exploit was ready, and three days later, his find was nominated for Chromium's Reward Panel.

But as time passed, and the fix didn't make it to users' desktops. A month and a half later, Ater asked the team why the fix was not released. Their answer was that there was an ongoing discussion within the Standards group, to agree on the correct behaviour - "Nothing is decided yet."

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