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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

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: echo
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Has anyone considered that your smartwatch is probably spying on you when you wear it?


41 posted on 03/16/2017 5:47:55 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ernest fyi!


42 posted on 03/16/2017 5:49:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spygate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: RummyChick

My guess is if you ask it about the CIA, you immediately rocket up to the top of their surveillance list.


43 posted on 03/16/2017 5:51:01 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
"Man Turns Amazon's Alexa Into Terrifying Talking Skull"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3534635/posts


44 posted on 03/16/2017 5:52:09 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: KyCats

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...


45 posted on 03/16/2017 5:53:46 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

LOL!!!

I was plying the video and the Alexander, here at home, was answering the questions.

Funny...


46 posted on 03/16/2017 5:53:55 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It works as a home automation system.

You can tell it to turn just about anything on or off, set HVAC, etc...


47 posted on 03/16/2017 5:55:28 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

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)

48 posted on 03/16/2017 5:55:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spygate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: RummyChick

So it cant tell a lie? This isn’t AI we’re talking about, it’s a computer


49 posted on 03/16/2017 5:58:51 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Ask Alexa to tell you an obama joke...see what you get.


50 posted on 03/16/2017 6:00:39 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: DouglasKC

>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.


51 posted on 03/16/2017 6:01:51 PM PDT by soycd
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
This is helping all agencies share information, so breakdowns don't happen that would potentially allow another 9/11 level event take place.

Because having all you data stored in the cloud means that planes will not run into building.

Really?

52 posted on 03/16/2017 6:06:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Smellin Salt

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


53 posted on 03/16/2017 6:06:40 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Alexa can tell a joke

Not understand a question

But shut down when NSA mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG_mj9T_yZ0


54 posted on 03/16/2017 6:13:28 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

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.


55 posted on 03/16/2017 6:13:35 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
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56 posted on 03/16/2017 6:15:13 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
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57 posted on 03/16/2017 6:16:51 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: kaehurowing

Shoot, I am concerned about typing replies to posts from this Kindle. (It being an Amazon product)


58 posted on 03/16/2017 6:20:00 PM PDT by madison10 (Bless you, Mr. DJ Trump.)
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To: BenLurkin

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59 posted on 03/16/2017 6:31:55 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The government with the compliance of silicon billionaires has made great strides in gaining omnipresence over us subjects.


60 posted on 03/16/2017 6:36:43 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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