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.
“The Cloud’ = someone else’s hard drive
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.
Click bait and I doubt it’s worth the payoff.
I told a salesman recently that I already have a better device. It’s called “my son.”
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
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.
>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.
Assuming the above is true, does Apple have a similar agreement with the Intelligence Community?
Has anyone considered that your smartwatch is probably spying on you when you wear it?
Ernest fyi!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3534635/posts
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)
Ask Alexa to tell you an obama joke...see what you get.