[ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user's private audio

[Jim Kinney]

Brilliantly simple!

Assuming, of course, the mechanical connection still disconnects the internal gear and doesn't just trigger a software redirect.

On May 25, 2018 9:24:40 AM EDT, Charles Shapiro via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>For your cell phone, there's also a fairly cute hardware solution for
>the
>truly paranoid..
>
>https://store.boingboing.net/sales/nope-sound-microphone-blocker
>
>-- CHS
>
>
>On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:41 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> On 05/24/2018 02:53 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
>> > Siri on your Apple Phone and Google voice on your Android are
>always
>> listening.
>>
>> I don't know anything about Apple, but you can turn off voice
>> controls/listening on Android and on Amazon Tablets at the system
>level.
>>  Never saw anything that showed these settings weren't honored.
>>
>> When Amazon pushed an update that enabled Alexa on their Fire
>tablets,
>> it was pretty clear they had and easy to disable.
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