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.
Interesting video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXB5OIprIBo
Another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7UY8Nm5rc
McAfee to CIA: You Should Be Ashamed; What Were You Thinking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-WCDa4NSc
How does ECHO work? Where does the information come from? Is it stored on the device?
Mine just answers that it doesn’t understand the question. It also says that it would never intentionally lie to me.
I have no idea why anyone would want this in their life.
I realize it’s not a perfect analogy, but I just keep thinking of the Mark of the Beast. It’s Amazon, right? So we’re talking about buying ... pretty much anything.
And there is now an expectation that you will invite this monster into your home and let it know everything there is no know about you, just so you can be an Amazon customer.
I’m not taking that Mark.
Alexa is big brother.
Has anyone here tried this CIA question so we know it isnt someone screwing around.
ECHO listens to everything, transmits its to Amazon systems for a response.
It is a spy in the home.
I asked the same question and got the same response, a two tone response with no words.
Two days later I asked the same question and got the response, “No, I work for Amazon.”
Bingo,just like google is the internet spy, cataloging your every internet move.
“The Cloud’ = someone else’s hard drive
The one where the guy asks about FBI, FDA , etc is interesting to see how it responds to each.
Try asking yours if it shares information with the CIA. One person theorized they changed the data base after connected to CIA question so someone changed it to sharing information with the CIA.
““The Cloud’ = someone else’s hard drive”
In the 1990s, the Cloud = Managed Service Provider. That didn’t sell so they rebranded it as “the cloud” after the Microsoft Visio cloud image used to represent the Internet.
Fools.
i’LL TAKE A DOZEN OF THOSE AND SHE CAN SPY ON EVERYTHING
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.
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