Anon Archived You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened (theregister.co.uk)
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Anon Archived You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened (theregister.co.uk)
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[–] FakeNewzIsFake 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Who ever put this device in their home so they can talk to a machine to do meaningless tasks for them deserve to be recorded and spied on. Our phones are not any better. No headphones with a microphone, no microphone, no phone.. It's the best we can do at the moment, but it would not be hard to put a microphone in ANY electronic device and have that device connect to a low grade phone network. Quality can suffer and upload times can be as long as they want.
When it comes down to it, we are all being spied on more than likely through every device created past 2014.
[–] 12855063? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Only way is to physically disconnect and reattach the microphone when you want to use it.
[–] fl3x ago
2014 is a pretty arbitrary date.
...it's every digital device created, ever, that can TX/RX, and uses electricity. Even devices you think don't have electrical components in them can have power sources and transmitters embedded in them, or technology that when illuminated becomes active and begins gathering data and storing or transmitting it.
[–] The_Venerable ago
Speakers can work as microphones.
[–] telleveryoneyouknow ago
Do you have any resources I could look into regarding this?