Your Device’s Microphone Has Been Hacked!
It’s shocking when you finally find out someone is listening to everything you say (and not in a good way).
In fact, all your devices are broadcasting your life to strangers right now, and you don’t even know it’s happening.
Most people worry about the camera in the lid of their laptop. They think people can see through its lens — and it’s true. Sometimes the indicator light will pop on for no reason and then pop off just as quickly. What about that in-built microphone? It doesn’t have a light. Nothing tells us that the microphone is capturing and sending out valuable information about us!
It’s a typical day. The phone rings and you’re at your computer. It’s a friend calling. You talk about your bank balance; the job you’ve applied for; your health; a spouse; a one-night stand; your Last Will and Testament… and it’s all picked up by your computer’s microphone and sent somewhere. Someone else has just heard everything you said. Someone knows more about you than you do them.
It’s the microphone that does all the damage. There’s no indicator light for that. And don’t hackers know this fact? Microphone hacking is real. You should share this post right away.
There’s a microphone in every home — often, more than one. They’re in our laptops, phones and tablets.
Online computers and devices can be hacked. It’s not difficult — made easy by our poor online habits. We never disconnect from the Internet. It’s like leaving our front door open while away from home. Anyone walking by our IP address will step through it and take a look around (a firewall only slows the process). The only way to stop them completely is to sever the link. Turn off the Internet. This way, there’s no IP address for a stranger to find. There’s no front door, no window, nothing.
But we don’t do that. We remain online and let that tiny microphone document our daily lives for someone else to study.
If a serial killer wanted to have access to a range of victims, this would be a perfect way to find them. That person would know if someone was alone or troubled. They’d know a vulnerable candidate when they heard one.
I know I do.