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by handedness 53 days ago
> This is completely false:

>> Their microphone kill switch also doesn't prevent audio recording

More dangerous advice. The microphone kill switch prevents audio recording via the mic, not via the sensors or speaker. A Librem 5 user needing to secure against audio attacks would need to switch all kill switches off, not just the mic one (by Librem 5's own estimation), but would still be vulnerable to the speaker.

The effect of your participation in threads about projects you claim to care about is harmful. Please do better.

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Librem 5 speakers cannot be used for recording, according to the developers. Yes, all kill switches protect you from the sensors.

This is indeed a misunderstanding, again. Reliable protection is possible - this is all I wanted to say. Not everybody means "all sensors" when they say "microphone". I took the phrase literally.