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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
But you don't address the follow up experiments. Why?
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You weren't addressing me, but just for the heck of it:
1. I'm not going to take the word, or experimentation abilities, of that article's author on faith. It's a pop news article, not a scientific paper.
2. The article is talking about specific apps like Facebook abusing it's mic permissions, nothing was claimed about the hardware or operating system vendors. I actually have an easier time believing evil of Facebook than of Amazon. At least for now.
3. The article quotes a Dr. Peter Henway as stating that audio gets sent back, but provides no evidence, and no footnotes pointing to any. Also a Google search of that person returns primarily a bunch of copycat articles, all of which only reference the same quote from the same article you linked. At least one of those copycat articles had the journalistic integrity to say Dr. Henway "offers a theory" as to what might be happening, rather than presenting it as fact with out evidence.
I have a contact request out to the cited cyber-security company (Asterisk, now CyberCX) for corroboration and more info. If I hear back, I'll let you know.