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minus-squareEatYouWell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 year agoThey’re not completely wrong, though. If the devices are phoning home when the mic is disabled, then someone would have discovered it by now. There are people who do that shit for fun, and Amazon is a big target.
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoAs someone who has Google Home and used to have Alexa: I have network tools tracking what these devices are doing just to see if they are constantly listening or doing anything weird. In 4 years I’ve yet to see anything suspicious, which sucks, cuz it’d be worth so much fucking money to the media
They’re not completely wrong, though. If the devices are phoning home when the mic is disabled, then someone would have discovered it by now. There are people who do that shit for fun, and Amazon is a big target.
As someone who has Google Home and used to have Alexa:
I have network tools tracking what these devices are doing just to see if they are constantly listening or doing anything weird.
In 4 years I’ve yet to see anything suspicious, which sucks, cuz it’d be worth so much fucking money to the media