Is it any different than speaking in front of your smartphone?
I don't own an echo or Google whatever but I've definitely mentioned things and then got ads for that thing within the hour/day. Like cat litter when I don't even own a cat, just mentioned it once for cleaning up spills.
More likely there's a bunch of data points it can use. Coming within BT range of someone who does have a cat for example. Otherwise all the major smart phone companies would need to be in collision to keep the secret because the battery drain would be so blatant of it was recording, processing, transfering etc.
I don't have a smoking gun for Google advertising based on conversation, but I mentioned in an email (Gmail) that someone I know was going to the Calgary Stampede, and Google Ads flogged Stetson cowboy hats and the Stampede for weeks after that. It was so conspicuous because normally it's just, "hot singles in your area", "hot Christian singles in your area?" maybe, "hot Christian moms in your area?" Nowadays it's like, "grannies near you want to fuck." FML.
Get out of here with your reasoning. It's more fun to feign outrage because it gives me an opportunity to feel smart. If you start to invalidate my superiority by pointing out how arbitrary and dramatic my response is then I'm going to downvote you.
I don't know about you, but I generally turn my phone off completely when I'm at a doctor or hospital, as per the rules they have posted in the lobby asking me to do so.
Dentist office I went to has a private room with an Echo, they use it to switch playlists without having to touch anything, I guess. Figure they didn't really think it through....
But yeah I was a bit uncomfortable with that. Not that anything private was discussed, I simply had a cavity filled. They're excellent dentists tho, best I've ever seen, so I won't be going elsewhere.
Yeah, don’t go looking too hard whenever you’re in a hospital or anything. The number of vulnerabilities I can spot with as little infosec knowledge I have is deeply concerning
You're all missing the real kicker here - this sign is only here for the HIPAA auditor. Everyone knows that no one is actually going to mute the thing.
No, there is a button to make the Echo stop listening.
If you want to prove me wrong, it should be incredibly easy to press the button and record the Echos network activity. If you're right you'd still see network traffic. But nobody has been able to show this so far. I wonder why?
Why do they even have an Amazon echo if they know it's a fucking security risk?
If you need a speaker, just get a speaker, not one a spyker (sorry, that was shite)
Friendly reminder to pause your bleeple before you buttlebode your over-driver. You do not want (CCF) cloud confederation forces to scuttle your bodes.
Shit like this is why I got a dumb speaker. It just plays audio, it doesn't have a battery (meaning that unplugged = zero power), it doesn't have wifi, it doesn't have an assistant, it just plays the music I ask it to play via Bluetooth.
IoT and smart device security only means your data is protected from unauthorized access. It's up to the manufacturer, not the user to decide who can get in.
Curious to learn how would you verify it. Wouldn't one has to go as low level as power spikes? Not to sound paranoid but one can't just believe the PR these companies said. Consequently we have to check how the device behaves. It's not because it doesn't send information that it does not process it. One could imagine it logs on specific behavior or keywords and only send information back when "normal" behavior is expected, e.g update check. I'm not trying to imply this is the case, only that verifying doesn't seem "easy" to me.
Even if it's verified not to spy on you today, they're all one forced update away from always listening and reporting back, either to corporate or a hacker. Don't trust code you can't see.
reminder that the google home tells you that the mic is muted if you call it. it's basically a telescreen. in the case of the echo show, it is literally a telescreen.