I Asked My Amazon Echo A Question About Our Government, And The Answer Terrified Me

QPOLITICAL ^ | 3-10-2017

[kaehurowing]

Has anyone considered that your smartwatch is probably spying on you when you wear it?

[Grampa Dave]

Ernest fyi!

[KyCats]

My guess is if you ask it about the CIA, you immediately rocket up to the top of their surveillance list.

[zeestephen]

"Man Turns Amazon's Alexa Into Terrifying Talking Skull"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3534635/posts

[RummyChick]

Lets be real. I think what you ask it does have a bearing on a lot of things....despite the claim they don’t reveal info blah blah blah

I loved when the girl called it “a traitorous bitch” . I think the response was Thank you for the feedback...

[Vendome]

LOL!!!

I was plying the video and the Alexander, here at home, was answering the questions.

Funny...

[Vendome]

It works as a home automation system.

You can tell it to turn just about anything on or off, set HVAC, etc...

[Grampa Dave]

So did the Russians hijack Yahoo/google/Amazon or did the CIA do it and blame it on the Russians? Did they just pay Google, Amazon and Yahoo for their cloud data collection.

This tidbit below is buried in the Muscular writeup by Wikipedia.

Operational details:

According to the leaked document the NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from internal Yahoo! and Google networks to data warehouses at the agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. The programme operates via an access point known as DS-200B, which is outside the United States, and it relies on an unnamed telecommunications operator to provide secret access for the NSA and the GCHQ.[3]

According to a post-it style note from the presentation, the exploitation relied on the fact that (at the time at least) data was transmitted unencrypted inside Google's private cloud, with "Google Front End Servers" stripping and respectively adding back SSL from/to external connections.

According to the Washington Post: "Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing." After the information about MUSCULAR was published by the press, Google announced that it was working on deploying encrypted communication between its datacenters.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program)

[Smellin Salt]

So it cant tell a lie? This isn’t AI we’re talking about, it’s a computer

[Ouderkirk]

Ask Alexa to tell you an obama joke...see what you get.

[soycd]

>This is just paranoia. If you want to find out ALL you can about the Echo become a developer for what are called “skills”. You’ll get all the info you need for developing apps for the echo and there’s nothing nefarious going on.

99% of the developers I know would not have a clue what the network stack layer is doing with their data nor how to even check. Java and other far removed developers would not even understand C or assembler...much less machine code.

There is plenty of work for those with a clue. I just want to retire.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is helping all agencies share information, so breakdowns don't happen that would potentially allow another 9/11 level event take place.

Because having all you data stored in the cloud means that planes will not run into building.

Really?

[RummyChick]

You said it is pre programmed to give answers.
EXCEPT IT DOESNT ALWAYS GIVE ANSWERS

ERGO..it is preprogrammed NOT TO GIVE ANSWERS ON CERTAIN TRIGGERS

Try the two NSA questions I gave you and see what it does.

Alexa will tell you when she doesn’t understand a question.

Yet, sometimes she shuts down..like the CIA question that started it.

Try the new variation using Amazon

Does Amazon share information with the CIA
Or
Does Amazon work for the CIA

and see what it says

Or ask it if the CIA killed JFK

[RummyChick]

Alexa can tell a joke

Not understand a question

But shut down when NSA mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG_mj9T_yZ0

[Rusty0604]

I just asked Siri if she was connected to the CIA, she asked me to repeat the question, then after a long pause she said, “who, me?”, I said yes,you and there was no answer. Did it again and same thing happened.

[skimbell]

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[skimbell]

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[madison10]

Shoot, I am concerned about typing replies to posts from this Kindle. (It being an Amazon product)

[Chode]

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[fella]

The government with the compliance of silicon billionaires has made great strides in gaining omnipresence over us subjects.