<html><head></head><body>Brilliantly simple!<br>
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Assuming, of course, the mechanical connection still disconnects the internal gear and doesn't just trigger a software redirect.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 25, 2018 9:24:40 AM EDT, Charles Shapiro via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>For your cell phone, there's also a fairly cute hardware solution for the truly paranoid..<br><br><a href="https://store.boingboing.net/sales/nope-sound-microphone-blocker">https://store.boingboing.net/sales/nope-sound-microphone-blocker</a><br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:41 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 05/24/2018 02:53 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:<br>
> Siri on your Apple Phone and Google voice on your Android are always listening.<br>
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</span>I don't know anything about Apple, but you can turn off voice<br>
controls/listening on Android and on Amazon Tablets at the system level.<br>
Never saw anything that showed these settings weren't honored.<br>
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When Amazon pushed an update that enabled Alexa on their Fire tablets,<br>
it was pretty clear they had and easy to disable.<br>
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