Smartphones, watches, tablets or laptops are an integral attribute of every modern person. But it turns out that they pose a significant threat to our privacy. No wonder some people plug the camera into laptops, while others plug it into the camera, gallery, etc. no wonder it doesn’t download any extra programs that require access. But if you can still give up on games, what to do with programs that many of them need to work? And as it turns out, they’re not completely safe.

Americans have reviewed more than 200 programs and identified the risks in these programs.

We are talking about video conferencing programs. They have become very popular during the pandemic as most office workers are working from home. All meetings, meetings, training – everything went online. The lion’s share of the population continues to work or study remotely. However, as it turned out, all these applications such as Zoom, Slack, MS Teams/Skype, Google Meet, Cisco Webex, BlueJeans, WhereBy, GoToMeeting, Jitsi Meet, Discord and many more can listen to our conversations. imply? US researcher Kassem Fawaz attended a video conference. He’s microphone was turned off, but he later noticed that the red light where the microphone was located was still on. It turned out that despite Kassem turning it off, the microphone continued to work. Further research has found that even if we turn off our microphone, more than 200 apps continue to “listen” to everything around us.

Experts say it’s a big problem

Researchers say this is a problem. After all, if the camera can still be turned off, it is more difficult with the microphone. In addition, applications collect the received data and transfer it to various servers. The team of researchers involved in the study said there are two solutions. Or whenever users have to turn off the microphone in the device’s settings, it’s pretty slow. Or you need to assemble a team of professionals who will create a custom program to reliably mute the microphone when needed. The second option takes time.