“Google’s engineers, who’ve proven themselves to be just as talented I imagined , were able to identify the problem and fix it in less than 2 weeks from my initial report but according to the latest test, Google has not sorted out the problem,” claimed Atar, who has dedicated a complete website on this possible glitch. On the other hand, Google insists that there is ‘no immediate threat’ and rejected the claims of Atar.
“We’ve re-investigated and still believe there is no immediate threat, since a user must first enable speech recognition for each site that requests it. The feature is in compliance with the current W3C standard, and we continue to work on improvements” claimed Google.
Most of the voice recognition websites work over the secure ‘https’ network, that means Google Chrome will not ask you every time some website asks for access to the microphone of your computer. That means? The intruder at the other end of the pipe can easily sneak into the network and eavesdrop. Solution? There is nothing wired up till now but experts recommend not to use speech recognition, at least from the uncommon websites until there is an official solution to the problem by Google.