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Be careful what you say when visiting voice-controlled websites on Google Chrome. Recently, a security expert discovered that malefactors could leverage the browsers voice-recognition abilities to invade users privacy, but Google has yet to implement his recommended fix. Tal Ater, the Israeli programmer behind the annyang! speech-recognition script for websites, discovered the vulnerability last September.

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Toying around with voice-recognition apps, developer Tal Ater noticed something strange. Because of a quirk in Chromes microphone settings, any site enabled for voice-recognition could use a pop-up window to keep recording almost indefinitely, hidden in the background. In Aters demonstration, he closes the tab and continues talking, only to reveal a pop-up behind the […]

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