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Why does my smart speaker keep unmuting itself randomly, and is there a hardware fix I can do to ensure privacy?
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Why does my smart speaker keep unmuting itself randomly, and is there a hardware fix I can do to ensure privacy?
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smart speaker microphone mute hardware switch electrical disconnect microphone privacy teardown mute button firmwareGoogle ↗
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smart speaker microphone mute hardware switch electrical disconnect microphone privacy teardown mute button firmware Google ↗
- users, of whether the sensor is powered or otherwise capable of capture. Mute buttons that toggle software state, or even internal hardware kill switches that disable recording when not in use [20], are invisible to end-users and thus do not provide this perceptible assurance. Prior work examining the privacy behaviors of smart speaker users found that one-way users feel perceptible assurance that their smart speakers are not listening is by disconnecting the microphone from its power source [1, · usenix.org
- Tangible Privacy for Smart Voice Assistants: Bystanders’ · par.nsf.gov