{"id":364868,"date":"2020-09-18T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=364868"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:46:33","slug":"dont-fear-the-orange-light-in-ios-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/09\/18\/dont-fear-the-orange-light-in-ios-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Fear the Orange Light in iOS 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I got a note today — as I told you, I am the tech go-to guy in any group of people that I\u2019m a member. So I got from a staffer today, one of the highly rated, overpaid staffers sends me a U.K. Daily Mail — I\u2019m just kidding about that. Snerdley knows. He\u2019s laughing in there. It\u2019s a U.K. Daily Mail story. A staffer sends me this. The headline: “iOS 14 Update Displays an Orange Dot to Warn if Someone Is Listening In.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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And I looked at that, and I said, “This is just unconscionable. That\u2019s not what this is.” This furthers this notion that anybody and everybody can listen to your conversations on your phone and that Apple has now found a way to let you know when it\u2019s happening. And that is not happening. It\u2019s very hard for somebody to get into your phone and make that happen. That\u2019s why we constantly tell you about Norton 360<\/a> and having VPN so that nobody can get into your devices.<\/p>\n

But this is a purposeful attempt by — and I like the Daily Mail. I really like \u2019em. But this is irresponsible. What Apple has done here, it\u2019s part of their privacy push. They want you to know when the microphone is on. And so, if you\u2019re dictating that orange light is gonna go on. It\u2019s the upper right-hand corner of the screen. And if the microphone is on, after you have turned it on because you are dictating, or if you are using Siri, the light will come on, and it\u2019s just to tell you that the microphone is on. It\u2019s Apple\u2019s attempt to keep you as informed as possible about how your phone is functioning.<\/p>\n

This headline: “iOS 14 Update Displays Orange Dot to Warn if Somebody\u2019s Listening In.” No. It\u2019s gonna display this orange dot 99% of the time when you are using the microphone. Folks, the number of times that a stranger or a criminal or a bad guy can get into your phone or your iPad and start listening to you is so tiny and infinitesimally small, you couldn\u2019t make a statistic out of it. It happens, but not to the degree this headline implies. This headline\u2019s irresponsible.<\/p>\n

There are already enough paranoid people out there who think that the ChiComs and that Big Tech and all these developers that write these apps are out there monitoring you and listening to you and watching you. And I\u2019m sorry, folks, but we just aren\u2019t that important to that many people. It\u2019s possible. But there are steps you can take to make sure nobody ever gets into your device. Norton 360<\/a> is an example of VPN.<\/p>\n

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If the light turns green, by the way, it means your camera is on. So then we can expect a headline: “iOS 14 Update Displays Green Dot to Warn if Someone Is Watching You Change Clothes.” And, look, I\u2019m not a fanboy for Apple here. I\u2019m just trying to be honest. I hate scaremongering like this. I hate these unjustified attacks. Look, if you want to go out and attack Apple, there\u2019s plenty of stuff you can attack \u2019em on, but not this. This is actually their attempt to keep you more informed about how your device works.<\/p>\n

So, you turn on dictation, you hit the microphone button on the keyboard, you\u2019re responding to a text or an email, it\u2019s a tiny little light. It\u2019s gonna turn orange, and it just tells you the microphone\u2019s on. And 99% of the time, 99.9% of the time it\u2019s gonna be because you are using it, not some outsider. And the same thing with the camera.<\/p>\n

If you make a FaceTime call, if you take a picture, a selfie, anytime you turn the camera on, it\u2019s gonna turn green. It\u2019s new with iOS 14. It\u2019s simply their attempt to keep you more informed.<\/p>\n

Look, I wanted to get that out of the way because this tech stuff is so misunderstood, and it is used to keep people so paranoid, and it fuels other conspiracy theories. Look, Big Tech is worthy of all kinds of suspicion. But what you need to be worried about Big Tech is their association with China and their unfair search results and the fact that they are totally biased and discriminatory against you if you are Republican or a conservative, not that they\u2019re listening in to you.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t need to. They can read what you\u2019re typing in if they want to go that way, if you\u2019re searching Google, for example. They don\u2019t have to listen to you. And they\u2019re not. And the same thing with the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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