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I Asked My Amazon Echo A Question About Our Government, And The Answer Terrified Me
QPOLITICAL ^ | 3-10-2017

Posted on 03/16/2017 5:06:47 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

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To: RummyChick

Yup, did it just last night as the wife and I were joking around about it. We said “Alexa, do you work for the CIA?”

It answered, “No, I work for Amazon”.

It’s all programming. Big whoop.


21 posted on 03/16/2017 5:23:56 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Defiant
Mine just answers that it doesn’t understand the question. It also says that it would never intentionally lie to me.

Sounds like a wife to me...........

22 posted on 03/16/2017 5:26:03 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My once 6 pack abs are now a keg......)
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To: RummyChick

Mine answers “I don’t understand the question.”


23 posted on 03/16/2017 5:26:17 PM PDT by Gamecock (Twitter: What a real democracy looks like.)
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To: RummyChick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWlkxdrx44E

Asking about Michael Hastings crash

Someone should ask if CIA killed JFK and see what it does.


24 posted on 03/16/2017 5:27:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Defiant

Machines, as of yet, cannot intentionally do anything. They do what their programming tells them to do.


25 posted on 03/16/2017 5:27:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Click bait and I doubt it’s worth the payoff.


26 posted on 03/16/2017 5:27:43 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Many people have smart tvs that listen to them, and can listen even when appeared to be turned off.


27 posted on 03/16/2017 5:27:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

It is the concept of the Amazon Echo that terrifies me. It is classic dystopian literature in real time.


28 posted on 03/16/2017 5:28:39 PM PDT by independentmind (In te Domine confido non confundar in aeternum)
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To: GraceG

Funny.


29 posted on 03/16/2017 5:29:24 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I told a salesman recently that I already have a better device. It’s called “my son.”


30 posted on 03/16/2017 5:29:58 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Simply put this thing is a computer that has been programmed to respond to the sound of the human voice. Thats all. You can ask it all day long what it’s connected to and it’s going to give you pre-recorded answers. It has no morals, no ethics and it doesn’t know who, if anyone, it’s feeding data to. Anyone who worries about this thing spying on them must have an interesting life


31 posted on 03/16/2017 5:31:28 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Trump needs to end the contract with Amazon - ASAP, like day before yesterday. That “cloud” itself should be at an NSA site RUN BY THE NSA not “contracted”. Also he needs to end the order Lynch issued just days before Trump’s inauguration that moved the “need to know” decision making on the NSA’s signal intelligence from the NSA to the requesting agency - leaving it to them to perform the privacy firewall the NSA always did, by that firewall could deny a request for its data. That function needs to be moved back to the NSA. It was the head of the NSA that did not go along with Clapper and Brennan’s spying on Trump, causing them to go the Brits & get them to share the NSA data that had been given to them.


32 posted on 03/16/2017 5:34:21 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: GraceG

2nd picture down.
http://imgur.com/gallery/KlIOr


33 posted on 03/16/2017 5:36:12 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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To: Mr. K
I checked with the shipper and they are all out of that particular product.

But they said your Niska will be delivered sometime tomorrow morning between 8 and ten.

Oh, and something about no returns, but they were probably joking. I think.

34 posted on 03/16/2017 5:36:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: CodeToad

So it has to be hooked to the internet?


35 posted on 03/16/2017 5:39:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Smellin Salt

Except it doesn’t always give you prerecorded answers..which is what started this..

Ask it if it is connected to the NSA and then ask if Amazon is connected to the NSA and see the response.


36 posted on 03/16/2017 5:39:59 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

>We have been conditioned to accept phones with microphones that always stay on, laptops with cameras and microphones, digital cable, and smart TVs.

Not the “We” I know. If you can’t hack the stack, don’t use the crack.


37 posted on 03/16/2017 5:41:14 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Defiant

Ask if it spies on you and your family.


38 posted on 03/16/2017 5:42:02 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Swordmaker
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.

Assuming the above is true, does Apple have a similar agreement with the Intelligence Community?

39 posted on 03/16/2017 5:44:29 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Defiant

Instead, invite a drug dealer into your home. At least he isn’t spying on your kids.

Alexa, who is better to talk to my children, Alexa or a drug dealer??


40 posted on 03/16/2017 5:46:52 PM PDT by TheNext (RyanCare is FAKE Healthcare! VETO VETO VETO)
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