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Steve Gibson did a wireshark investigation of an Alexa, it is NOT always transmitting. Your assertion that "nobody can prove that" is rather absurd.
by michaelcampbell 8y ago
Steve Gibson did a wireshark investigation of an Alexa, it is NOT always transmitting.
Your assertion that "nobody can prove that" is rather absurd.
- bootaccount 8y agothere's nothing stopping from Alexa recording content locally and transmitting it with a traditional request once activated. Also, there's no reason for Amazon to want a constant stream of Alexa data hitting their cloud services. The goal is to mine and extract valuable data about users to build profiles, ideally you'd want to do that on-device and send up the most valuable bits. These are also capabilities they can silently introduce at anytime for any device. Steve Gibsons "analysis" means nothing.
- sushisource 8y agoExcept, you know, memory - of which these devices don't have a ton.
- tlb 8y agoYou can store around 1000 hours of recorded speech in a gigabyte of flash memory that costs $0.25. For most people, that could hold their entire conversational activity for a year. Storage and off-line upload (perhaps during a software update when packets are flying around anyway) isn't difficult.
- Analog24 8y agoThey can not silently introduce new hardware to these devices. You should look into what kind of hardware these devices actually contain. Try to set up an intelligent, personalized data miner with those constraints.
- LinuxBender 8y agoSteve was not thinking this through. I can batch compress chunks of audio and lazy upload them when I think nobody is around. A listening device could probably even guess when you are not going to be using your internet connection.
- cblades 8y agoYou can filter the captured traffic for anything coming from Alexa's IP or mac, or transmitting to any amazon-owned server.
- LinuxBender 8y agoSure, but you wont know what it is or why it is.