{"id":3978,"date":"2016-11-15T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2016-11-15T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:16:10","slug":"shazam-keeps-ears-open-when-microphone-is-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/11\/15\/shazam-keeps-ears-open-when-microphone-is-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Shazam Keeps Ears Open When Microphone Is &#8216;Off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article talks about the application Shazam, which uses the device microphone to listen to a couple seconds of music and determine the title and author of a song. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve used SoundHound before, then it&#8217;s very similar. \u00a0Patrick Wardle, director of research for the security Synack, recently published an application called OverSight. \u00a0OverSight was used to alert the macIOS user of malicious attempts to access their camera. \u00a0People that used OverSight, was also alerted that the system was also accessing the microphone while Shazam was off. \u00a0Although, review of the Shazam code shows that the recording was not transferred, saved, or exfiltrated, it is still a concern that the app is still recording you even though it is suppose to be off. \u00a0I wonder how many other applications are still running in the background when you supposedly turn it off.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.databreachtoday.com\/shazam-keeps-ears-open-when-microphone-off-a-9528<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article talks about the application Shazam, which uses the device microphone to listen to a couple seconds of music and determine the title and author of a song. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve used SoundHound before, then it&#8217;s very similar. \u00a0Patrick Wardle, director of research for the security Synack, recently published an application called OverSight. \u00a0OverSight was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}