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Sophos reports old Mekanism is listening to the microphone

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commented

FYI The AstroBlock modpack is using Mekanism 1.12.2-9.6.8.366 (about 13 releases ago). Sophos AV is reporting that the mod is listening to the microphone. I don't know why it's reporting it, or whether other old versions have this error (the newest ones don't trigger). I'm sure it's a weird dependency mixup causing some third-party library to include something stupid, but you might consider pulling that release to avoid problems. (DW20 and Soaryn mentioned AstroBlock on YT so others may take a peek.)
NFINIT-Labs/AstroBlock#82

commented

Turning off the voice server in the config probably will stop this?

commented

Pretty sure your AV is just being super paranoid. Yes, if you have the voice server turned on the device is opened, but it's not actually recording

commented

It's not paranoid if it's true. AV is reporting that software was accessing the mic and that's all. Personally, I think it's bad coding to open channels you're not using and be lax about security, but I was just giving you a heads up about a potential problem.