{"id":286934,"date":"2017-06-03T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T01:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/?p=286934"},"modified":"2017-06-03T20:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T01:26:03","slug":"when-is-a-chrome-flaw-not-a-flaw-when-google-says-so-may-31-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/?p=286934","title":{"rendered":"When is a Chrome Flaw Not a Flaw? When Google Says So (May 31, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Google says that a situation in Chrome in which a website can record audio and video from a user&#8217;s computer without displaying the red recording light on the tab is not a security issue. Instead, the problem is a user issue, according to Google, because users have to give websites permission to record. &#8220;The dot is a best first-effort that only works on desktop when we have Chrome UI space available,&#8221; wrote Google in its response to the Chrome bug report. &#8220;That being said, we are looking at ways to improve this situation.&#8221; The researcher who discovered the issue notes that users are not always aware of what they are allowing when they grant website permissions.<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Read more in:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b> &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><a title=\"http:\/\/computerworld.com\/article\/3199018\/security\/chrome-bug-that-lets-sites-secretly-record-audio-and-video-is-not-a-flaw-google-says.html\" href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.com\/article\/3199018\/security\/chrome-bug-that-lets-sites-secretly-record-audio-and-video-is-not-a-flaw-google-says.html\"><b>http:\/\/computerworld.com<\/b><\/a>: Chrome bug that lets sites secretly record audio and video is not a flaw Google says<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Google says that a situation in Chrome in which a website can record audio and video from a user&#8217;s computer without displaying the red recording light on the tab is not a security issue. Instead, the problem is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20,52,8,50,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers","category-cloud","category-edtech","category-education","category-office-suites","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286936,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286934\/revisions\/286936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itblog.lcisd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}