<html><head></head><body><div>On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 18:53 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>There's a reason Republicans overturned privacy regulations on ISPs.</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Heck yeah! Big $$$$ in screwing people for cash!</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><br></pre><pre>Oddly enough I got an Amazon Echo for free a couple of months back but it is still in the box in plastic.</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Crazy people I know love Google and hacked a google thing to use voice command to tell people are in the office. Like _I'm_ going to add my name to that project...</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><br></pre><pre>However, you don't need Echo for this. Siri on your Apple Phone and Google voice on your Android are always listening.</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Turns out my phone is well supported with the replacement for cyanogenMod. Removing GooglePlay disables a ton of listening and tracking ability. </div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><br></pre><pre>-----Original Message-----</pre><pre>From: Ale [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of Beddingfield, Allen via Ale</pre><pre>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 2:35 PM</pre><pre>To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre>Subject: Re: [ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user's private audio</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Government = Amazon = Google = Microsoft = Apple .....</pre><pre>If Amazon gets the data, the government can get or intercept it.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>On 5/24/18 1:33 PM, Greg Clifton via Ale wrote:</pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre>And we (well most of us or at least many of us) thought that Big </pre><pre>Brother was going to be the Government!</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Calvin Harrigan via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a> </pre><pre><mailto:<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>>> wrote:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> Appalled and outraged! </s></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre> On 05/24/2018 02:29 PM, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> Is anyone actually surprised by this??</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> /Raj</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> -----Original Message-----</pre><pre> From: Ale <<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>>> On</pre><pre> Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio via Ale</pre><pre> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 2:12 PM</pre><pre> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>>></pre><pre> Subject: [ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared</pre><pre> user's</pre><pre> private audio</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-sec">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-sec</a></pre><pre> <<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-sec">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-sec</a>></pre><pre> retly-shared-users-private-audio/</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> IoT security rocks! 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