Posted on 03/16/2017 5:06:47 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Conspiracy theories on the internet are a dime a dozen. However some of them are proving to be more true than some would like to believe.
Ever since the book 1984 was released, portions of the public were made aware of an all pervading sense of dread that somehow some way their government was listening to them. There’s multiple levels to this fear. Traffic light cameras, or just increased cameras on street corners offers police a vantage point they didn't have before, but again the general public is under constant watch of a government who presumably only watches over them to keep them safe.
We have been conditioned to accept phones with microphones that always stay on, laptops with cameras and microphones, digital cable, and smart TVs. Now we have devices like Amazon Echo that are constantly listening for us to ask them questions. Is there anything deeper past this? Could the Amazon Echo be collecting data for intelligence agencies like the CIA? Watch this video and draw your own conclusion.
There are a couple of set up questions, asking Alexa, if 'she' would ever lie to you. Of course the answer is an honest 'No.'
There are some videos out there where Alexa is asked if she works with the CIA, and this question prompts a shutdown. In this video, Alexa answers with a 'No.'
Then when asked if Amazon works with the CIA, this question did result in a shutdown.
Here's where it gets interesting.
Amazon is renowned for its Cloud hosting services. For those that may not know, Cloud hosting is simply a term for storing information offsite, digitally. In short it makes for storing information very reliable, and very quickly accessed.
Amazon holds a $600 million dollar contract with the CIA, and all 16 other intelligence agencies for all of their cloud hosting. This is helping all agencies share information, so breakdowns don't happen that would potentially allow another 9/11 level event take place.
One can see the benefits of these people needing to be on the same page with each other, but the recent CIA leaks prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, that these types of devices are being used to spy on regular citizens.
Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, also owns the Washington Post, which makes it possible to speculate that the paper is a clearing house for in the intelligence community.
Have an Echo? Try this experiment for yourself. Be amazed. Then sell it.
Has anyone considered that your smartwatch is probably spying on you when you wear it?
Ernest fyi!
My guess is if you ask it about the CIA, you immediately rocket up to the top of their surveillance list.
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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...
LOL!!!
I was plying the video and the Alexander, here at home, was answering the questions.
Funny...
It works as a home automation system.
You can tell it to turn just about anything on or off, set HVAC, etc...
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)
So it cant tell a lie? This isn’t AI we’re talking about, it’s a computer
Ask Alexa to tell you an obama joke...see what you get.
>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.
Because having all you data stored in the cloud means that planes will not run into building.
Really?
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
Alexa can tell a joke
Not understand a question
But shut down when NSA mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG_mj9T_yZ0
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.
Shoot, I am concerned about typing replies to posts from this Kindle. (It being an Amazon product)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMTwfq_jI8
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The government with the compliance of silicon billionaires has made great strides in gaining omnipresence over us subjects.
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