[Tails-dev] Tails: mute microphone

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Hi,

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> Disable the microphone unless a sound enabled application needs it.


Attacks using the microphone are a point. However, disabling it hard
enough so that it would actually defeat a serious attacker while still
providing an option for the user to enable it seems us a non-trivial
task and higher priority items are still in our todo list.

Even though an attacker targeting Tails (or just a bit serious) could
bypass the protection, muting the microphone by default might defeat
some attacks. We thus added it to our todo:
https://tails.boum.org/todo/disable_microphone__63__/


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