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While that would be ideal, I don't personally mind the phoning home if it only happens after the wake word and if the cloud service greatly improves the respons

While that would be ideal, I don't personally mind the phoning home if it only happens after the wake word and if the cloud service greatly improves the response capabilities it might otherwise have. Yes, the word can be heard by mistake, but that's just the risk trade-off I make. I think a physical off switch would be good. At the moment I just unplug my Alexa if I'm particularly concerned it might hear something sensitive. I know many HN readers are far more privacy-conscious than I am, but that's just how I think about it. I personally consider cybercriminals and people who dislike me far greater privacy and security risks to me than tech giants or even the US government.

samstave 8y ago
What about having a home router which had a visual alert to all outbound traffic from connected devices to their locations. Super freaking simple to implement. And if it were a page that you could just toggle the ability of the stream flow by clicking on it... to create the FW rule instantaneously and stop that flow. You pull up a dashboard and see all your threads. If you see a thread from [phone]-->[Facebook] and you can just disable that stream. (Where [Facebook] is a list item of all the known FB addresses etc)