Posted on 05/24/2018 9:03:28 AM PDT by rktman
Stupidity is not subject to regulation.
Hell, I butt-dialed a random person when I was getting chewed out by my boss one time.
as the Russians used to say “Speak into the light fixture a little louder, please”
Yeah, who could have ever predicted this might happen /s
“Every room in her family home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her.”
Fixed!
I cannot believe people do this. I thought, ‘The Clapper’ was creepy enough back in the day, LOL!
Your smart phone is doing the same thing even when not actively being used. It is always listening to conversation to feed the algorithms and key words to your digital deposit box.
My son just butt dialed me. Works in a funeral home. Some things I just don’t want or need to hear.
Mine hears a lot of old time radio shows and TCM.
The latest “clapper” is a POS too. LOL!
This probably happens far more often than most people would like to believe. Why be so surprised? When you booby trap your own home with listening devices, is it really a shock when they communicate their data to other devices? Your children’s conversations are also vulnerable to random’absorption and dispensing’ as part of the Cloud.
That is what they are made to do. Perhaps future Alexa type systems will be more obvious in when they are recording, and to whom they are about to send information to. Until then, you take a big gamble just to brag about having the latest version of a “Smart Home”.
Sweeping for bugs is pretty meaningless with those in your house.
The damned thing has no intelligence. It examines each sequence of sounds that reaches it. It compares the sound with an internal dictionary. When there’s a match, it executes the command associated with the sound.
When I have Siri set to respond to “hey Siri,” it picks up snatches of conversation and carries them out. The results are amusing.
When you give a device the ability to do something, don’t be surprised if it does it. It will execute your commands as you state them, not as you want them to be done.
This is just the beginning of “the end”.
A disabled family member of ours loves it because it makes her more independent. Caregiver and housecleaner come by periodically. But being able to order restaurant deliveries, any little household item, and control home automation makes her feel much more independent. She doesn’t have to remember to tell someone to buy her X, she can tell Alexa “order X”.
And I know how much she uses it, given the piles of Amazon boxes I haul to the curb once in a while.
That said, I won’t have one in my home because of privacy concerns. Or kids getting in the habit of ordering everything all the time.
In the 70’s we were careful about what we said on the telephone because of who could be listening. Today we ask the networked microphones planted all around our house how to make meatloaf?
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
[[they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker]]
Apparently she didn’t read the fine print when she bought the spy device
It sounds like they must have set up their Alexa for the optional “Alexa Calling” feature that syncs it to their phone contact list.
It’s hard to see how Alexa could set itself up for that feature (but then they said the same thing about Skynet).
The solution to this is simple. Get rid of your spying devices.
You are right..I think of it as being the difference between a peeping tom looking through your window and someone inviting the pervert into your home. The perverts intent is the same, but his culpability isn’t.
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