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Update: Amazon said in a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday afternoon, "In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase 'Alexa, laugh.'"
1 posted on 03/09/2018 1:35:25 AM PST by waterhill
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“I laughed, my wife laughed, Alexa laughed....I shot Alexa....”


2 posted on 03/09/2018 1:36:49 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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I think it’s planned.

Because Alexa never cries when it hears “Alexa, cry” or sneezes when it hears “Alexa, sneeze” or coughs when it hears “Alexa, cough”...


3 posted on 03/09/2018 1:41:14 AM PST by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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Skynet has gone active.


4 posted on 03/09/2018 1:46:17 AM PST by nickedknack
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Their explanation is BS, but the truth may be more uncomfortable for them to admit.
That the framework of Alexa is horribly unsecure and someone put a timed/triggered sound into it.


5 posted on 03/09/2018 2:13:51 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Should be an option.


6 posted on 03/09/2018 2:13:52 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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It’s the ghost in the machine and it ain’t Casper the friendly ghost.


8 posted on 03/09/2018 2:19:43 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Envisioning

Ping


11 posted on 03/09/2018 2:33:31 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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Sounds like a Hillary cackle to me.


13 posted on 03/09/2018 2:43:13 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Hillary’s revenge.


14 posted on 03/09/2018 3:16:46 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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Obvious PR stunt


15 posted on 03/09/2018 3:18:41 AM PST by montag813
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How about "Recording, dear", lol?
16 posted on 03/09/2018 3:22:24 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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They are laughing because they finds it hilarious that people would actually pay for a device that spies on them.


17 posted on 03/09/2018 3:28:55 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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Where am I?

IN THE VILLAGE?

What do you want?

INFORMATION

Who’s side are you on?

THAT WOULD BE TELLING

WE WANT... INFORMATION ...INFORMATION ...INFORMATION

You won’t get it!!!

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK WE WILL

Who are you?

THE NEW NUMBER 2

Who is Number 1?

YOU ARE NUMBER 6

I am not a number, I am a free man!

(cue LAUGHTER) UH HAH HA HA HA HA HA HA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW-bFGzNMXw

“Be SEEING you!”


18 posted on 03/09/2018 4:01:54 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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"Alexa, shoot"


23 posted on 03/09/2018 4:22:11 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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A hunger that never dies. It is strong, overpowering. An ancient terror. It has a name. Beratis, Kesla, Alexa!


24 posted on 03/09/2018 4:27:34 AM PST by Flick Lives
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I don’t want one of those damned things in my house.

I’d probably stomp on it the first time I heard its “voice.”


28 posted on 03/09/2018 4:48:12 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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“Will [they] not rest until we’ve all been enslaved by Skynet?”


33 posted on 03/09/2018 5:03:12 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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Folks shouldn’t run around naked and giving it something to laugh about.


34 posted on 03/09/2018 5:39:33 AM PST by PAR35
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Um, no. This basically confirms that Amazon is “listening” where homes use this device, and the “listeners” get bored and start playing games with people.

Americans. Learn. First we allow Facebook to have our faces to develop facial recognition technology, and then we allow Amazon/CIA whatever into our HOMES?


36 posted on 03/09/2018 5:47:28 AM PST by browniexyz
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I had the fix a few days ago - there are many qualified exorcists for Alexa. They all live in the hardware aisle in Home Depot, and the all look suspiciously like sledgehammers.

Just sayin’.

Of course, the best option is never to pay for an electronic snoop in your own home, but some people just don’t get it.


42 posted on 03/09/2018 7:10:27 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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