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[–] GimmeTheUsual ago 

Anyone installing a device in their home that phones home somewhere to a server farm is a fucking idiot.

Everyone is being played. You can make an argument for phones and PCs as well, but at least you have some influence where you can lock down some aspects of what you own.

This home automation shit? Good luck. You're just wiring up your entire space for FuckYou, Inc to monetize and sell your data, and if the Feds want it -- bingo, they have access.

Fuck that bullshit.

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[–] Groff ago 

liars!

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[–] A_M_Swallow ago 

I suspect they were making a rival to the Alexa from Amazon and messed the design up. The Alexa has voice control and therefore needs a microphone. Putting microphones next to load speakers tends to produce a loud feedback noise. They may have solved this by disabling the microphone and voice control.

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[–] Drunkenst ago 

Nikola Tesla said wha to his secretary?

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[–] TH0UGHTP0LICE ago 

"Nice tits"

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[–] Drunkenst ago  (edited ago)

Bingo! You win a 🍪. Seems to me I read he said sumtin else too.

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[–] BillMarshall ago 

If AN ELECTRICIAN sold you a smoke detector with a built in camera that they could remotely access without telling you and never turned it on would they be arrested for a CRIME ? Of course.... (unless they were a black, gay, liberal, movie star.. than all bets are off)

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[–] polygeek 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Speakers can be turned into microphones.

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[–] Hand-Banana ago 

If you use gmail and ever order from any site, google will scan your mails and put the info into "purchase history". Supposedly something "only" you can see. It has price, item and your address. There was little fanfare about this "feature" and its not talked about except on one reddit post.

When it first rolled out last year, the reddit fags said you could delete emails and have items go away. This year it is no longer the case. So its 100% probable that gmail mines your user accounts, connections and personal information if you use it. Now if you use search logged in all this personal information is tied to it. Even if you don't they tie things to your IP address.

Case in point, I've stopped using google for 99% of things and yet it keeps changing my language to chinese. No matter what browser I use, everything is in moonspeak. My VPN is based in the US, all settings are for english. I put fake x-forwarded headers in some of my browsers to make it seem like I'm coming from a different place. Google seems to have accepted it as truth.

This nest microphone was 110% spying on you. I believe them when they said it wasn't supposed to be secret. None of this other stuff is either. They just don't talk about it. If you put it together, good luck on posting anywhere as google controls your visibility all over the web.

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[–] generate [S] ago 

so you think alternative products don't spy on you? What do you use for maps? smartphone?