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MtnGoat Member
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Mon May 06, 2019 11:22 am
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Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time
Duh, anyone who thinks it doesn't or cannot is not making informed purchasing choices. The device *must* be listening at all times in order to hear it's wake word in the first place.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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DigitalJanitor Dirt hippie
Joined: 20 May 2012 Posts: 792 | TRs | Pics
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coldrain108 Thundering Herd
Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 1858 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere over the rainbow |
Politically Correct
Religious Freedom
Jumbo Shrimp
unbiased opinion
Internet Privacy
oxyMORONs
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
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neek Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 2337 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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neek
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Mon May 06, 2019 7:34 pm
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Well, I would never buy one of those devices. No sir, only cell phones, tablets, smart watches, fitness trackers, and search engines integrated with email and mapping services for me.
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9513 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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Tue May 07, 2019 4:13 am
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The amount of "surprise" that accompanies various electronic privacy media stories amuses me. The NSA has been monitoring various forms of electronic communication almost from it's inception. Why do you think the USA has had laws restricting cryptographic equipment for export that so closely track what can be decrypted at reasonable speed by specialized equipment?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/56-bit_encryption
My grandson's other set of grandparents have Alexa in their Mcmansion, he thought it was great fun a couple years ago to shout out "Alexa what's 1 plus 2?" Or so I'm told.
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DigitalJanitor Dirt hippie
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BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1456 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
I received one as a gift! An Alexa that is. First thing you see in the unboxing procedure is a note telling you verbatim! " This device will record you in your home" please!! Who you think I am?? You think I'm looking to be recorded at all times?? By bizos??? C'mon, now!
Never plugged it in! And its probably still recording me to be honest!
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 1:52 am
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https://bgr.com/2019/01/10/ring-camera-customer-feeds-accessed-creepy-privacy-violation/
“ All that’s apparently required to tap into the live feeds is a customer’s email address. Meaning, the company has been so egregiously lax when it comes to security and privacy that even people outside the company could have potentially done this, using merely an email address to begin spying on customers, according to the report.
Within the company, a team that was supposed to have been focused on helping Ring get better at object recognition in videos caught customers in videos doing everything from kissing to firing guns and stealing.”
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coldrain108 Thundering Herd
Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 1858 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere over the rainbow |
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
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DigitalJanitor Dirt hippie
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Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7733 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:51 am
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I feel weird talking to inanimate electronics. Plus they tend to get it wrong half the time. It's easier and faster to do it the "old fashioned" way.
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:35 pm
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I don’t think you have the voice remote thing figured out. First off, you have to hold down a button to get it to listen. It is not constantly listening for its name like siri or hey google or alexa. Secondly, it does things difficult or impossible to do with buttons. Like search for upcoming movies across all channels featuring a particular actor. Or jumping ahead or back a specific amount of time. Or searching the internet for artists or titles on sites like Youtube if you have a connected internet TV. So it is not laziness, at least not on our part.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
No AI or anything like it will EVER be in my home!
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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MtnGoat Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 11992 | TRs | Pics Location: Lyle, WA |
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Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:55 am
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I'm not interested in giving appgoogyah any more data or access than I explicitly control via my keyboard.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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