Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > It was brought up elsewhere that Chrome/Chromium in the past has done > something worse in scope, silently downloading an add-on to that turns > on & listens to your microphone. Ostensibly to detect the "ok google" > keyword, but since its a closed source add-on can you be sure that's all > it does... > > https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/ > > Fortunately, the Fedora builds of Chromium have explicitly disabled this > feature (enable_hotwording=false in chromium.spec) Note that enable_hotwording is off by default in Chromium (not Chrome) builds (has been since Chromium 45). Only Chromium 43 and 44 are affected (because this "feature" was added in Chromium 43). Also note that this implies that QtWebEngine was never affected, because there is no QtWebEngine branch based on Chromium 43 or 44. (QtWebEngine 5.5 shipped Chromium 40, QtWebEngine 5.6 LTS started on Chromium 45.) In addition, QtWebEngine is not built with NaCl support, so there is no way that plugin could have run to begin with even if it had been downloaded. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
