SUMMARY While i was in the class using Zoom, i've noticed it's able to globally unmute my microphone while i've muted it from the applet The applet is designed as a privacy tool where i can disable audio input to make sure my voice is not being transmitted, but if the application is able to unmute it as it own, it makes it kinda useless. That's a security breach. STEPS TO REPRODUCE I've discovered this issue with Zoom, wich is a proprietary application. I don't know other applications that has this issue. 1. Join a Zoom meeting 2. Mute microphone on Zoom 3. Mute microphone on Plasma applet globally 4 . Unmute microphone on Zoom OBSERVED RESULT When pressing the unmute button on Zoom, the application enables the microphone globally by itself. It's able to record your voice. EXPECTED RESULT While Zoom is unmuted, it would still not be able to hear your voice because your microphone is globally muted. It shouldn't unmute you globally, it should only be able to hear you when you globally unmute aswell by the Plasma applet. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.94.0 Qt Version: 5.15.4 Kernel Version: 5.17.13-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-7100U CPU @ 2.40GHz Memory: 11.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Zoom version: 5.10.7 (3311) Using PulseAudio (16.0) and Xorg plasma-pa version is 5.24.5-1, but it isn't available on the Version list.
> The applet is designed as a privacy tool where i can disable audio input to make sure my voice is not being transmitted No, it is not designed to do that
> That's a security breach. > Graphics Platform: X11 On X11 with distro apps, apps have global access to everything. If you want more security, you can use Wayland and get all your apps from Flatpak or snap, which are sandboxed and let you clock this kind of thing.