> The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. cool, got a link to those? mainly out of interest reading about such systems and DSP, btw. actual t

> The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. cool, got a link to those? mainly out of interest reading about such systems and DSP, btw. actual trust could only come from open source--"this closed source, auto-updating software hasn't been observed to send sensitive data over the network so far" is something I might as well take your word for :-)