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The baseband is a black box and has direct access to the microphone.
by mikeash 8y ago
The baseband is a black box and has direct access to the microphone.
- fouric 8y agoOh, this is true - although the likelihood and ease of it being exploited as a listening device are much lower than that of a device explicitly designed to do so. Edit: Not to mention that the entire Alexa is a black box, too. Second Edit: Not trying to claim that you're an idiot, just provide some perspective.
- mikeash 8y agoI suspect that the capability is already there, to be turned on at the request of law enforcement.