Amazon Echo: invite a corporation into your home to listen to every word your family says. What could go wrong?https://twitter.com/mwhuss/status/691133123317202944 …
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@sammachin Interesting. Latest firmware? (And quite possible he activated it without realising.)
@aral @sammachin turns out he and his wife share an Amazon account and she searched for tin openers after talking about it
@alex_thomas Hey Alex, do you have a source for that? (Thanks in advance) :) +@sammachin
@alex_thomas @sammachin Thanks, both. Appreciate the updates. Hope future versions aren’t always on. Concept in general ripe for abuse.
@aral was over Christmas, also if it were sending all audio then I'd see the constant traffic stream on my dsl graph...
@aral the wake word processing has to be done on device
@aral it wouldn't be practical to have a fleet of devices sending audio constantly to a server then looking for trigger words....
@aral also the alexa voice service API is publically available, you can build your own echo device on a raspberry pi, see my site....
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