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When someone shows me their new Alexa or Google Home, I ask it to add ingredients to make thermite in to its shopping cart. Then I ask it to look up flights to
by nepthar 10y ago
When someone shows me their new Alexa or Google Home, I ask it to add ingredients to make thermite in to its shopping cart.
Then I ask it to look up flights to Syria.
- RKearney 10y agoWhat are you trying to accomplish by doing this? The audio of your voice is saved along with these requests, making it extremely easy to tell them apart from typical requests of the device owner.
- true_religion 10y agoDo you think the SWAT team cares if it is the owner who is a terrorist or the owner "associate"?
- rl3 10y agoTheir door only gets kicked in if the intelligence analyst or counterterrorism agent reviewing the material isn't able to tell it's an obvious joke, which I find unlikely.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThey might have a quota to fill.
- vkou 10y agoHere's an old Soviet joke for you: "Comrade Stalin, I heard you collect political jokes." "Yes, I do, comrade." "How many have you collected?" "Three and a half labour camps' worth." If you want an uninteresting life, expect that the police have no sense of humour.
- neaden 10y agoGreat way to have more time to spend reading at home I suppose.
- ue_ 10y agoAn extremely relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1807/ https://xkcd.com/1807/ :)
- rl3 10y agoI suppose it's nice having all of your friends in one place, even if that place is Guantanamo Bay. The beach parties must be great.
- ap46 10y agoI hear the water-boarding facilities are great over there!
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- semi-extrinsic 10y agoWhy thermite? I can easily think of other chemicals that are guaranteed to be much higher up on the red flag list.
- Brockenstein 10y agoHe knows what thermite is, he's seen it referenced dozens of times between WWII media and Breaking Bad.
- overcast 10y agoLet's be honest here, no you don't. Regardless, that would be an incredibly foolish act, making light of a serious problem. Your voice is recorded.
- hashhar 10y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1807/ https://xkcd.com/1807/ Kidding aside, I've been able to mistakenly activate other people's Cortana because they didn't take the time to set up voice recognition. It's a great way to exploit such tools.
- squozzer 10y agoI like the cut of your giblets. Sadly, most HNers have a large, dull, splintery stick up their ass.
- sctb 9y agoPlease don't comment unsubstantively like this.
- LeoPanthera 10y agoI'm sure you think you're trying to prove some point, but really you're just being a jerk. If someone I'd invited into my home did this kind of thing, they'd be un-invited pretty fast.
- unethical_ban 10y agoYou're no fun at parties then. You should be upset that someone querying those things can feasibly scare you about triggering some kind of investigation.
- victorhooi 10y agoSorry, being childish/petty != being fun. I get some people have their pet causes/conspiracy theories - but is doing this at your friend's place really the place to be getting on your soapbox? If you want to make a change - go run for office, or campaign for something. Don't just be a armchair jerk. I know plenty of people like this that have their pet causes (usually government surveillance, or the industrial-corporate machine, or eating meat etc.) - proselytising and ranting to your friends is one thing (and look, we all rant at times, so give some, take some) - but being a jerk about it is childish and immature.
- unethical_ban 10y agoI agree with everything you say! Except that making a joke at Alexa's expense is childish and immature.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoMaking a joke at Alexa's expense is fun. Making it at your friend's (possibly huge) expense? Not fun. I mean, what would 'nepthar do if for some reason the police actually showed up? Or if he/she found out later that their neighbour was denied boarding because TSA pulled some logs from somewhere? I mean, besides having a story to leak to papers, how would 'nepthar feel about getting their friend in life-threatening trouble? As minuscule as the possibility is, the joke seems funny mostly because this possibility exists (or at least is perceived to exist). This all is akin to doing pranks to scare the shit out of random people. It all sounds funny until you realize that some of those people may have heart conditions and could get seriously harmed by such a pranks.
- hsod 10y agoWhen someone shows you their new computer, do you Google these things?
- accountyaccount 10y agoIf you do this on a Google Home the owner now has a copy of your voice saying those things.