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Yeah, that'll be a differentiator for me. We have a few Echo Dots, which are pretty neat devices, but I'm not a huge fan of providing audio to Amazon and Google
by TYPE_FASTER 6y ago
Yeah, that'll be a differentiator for me. We have a few Echo Dots, which are pretty neat devices, but I'm not a huge fan of providing audio to Amazon and Google. Also, my neighbor was getting swatted and narrowed it down to his Echo Dots.
- leoedin 6y agoWhat do you mean by the last part? Swatted, as in having a SWAT team called to his house? What role did the Echo play in that?
- TYPE_FASTER 6y agoYes, the police showed up at his door a couple times saying somebody called 911. He disconnected everything from his network, no more visits from the police. He plugged devices back in one at a time, leaving a day or so between devices. Within an hour of plugging in the Echo devices, the police were back. He unplugged the Echo devices, no issues since.
- corytheboyd 6y agoI meeeaaannn come on, I feel like this person is withholding some important details about why the police show up at their door. This is just too ridiculous to be real.
- TYPE_FASTER 6y agoThe devices can make calls. There have been vulnerabilities that allow people to gain access and send commands: https://voicebot.ai/2020/08/13/amazon-patched-an-alexa-hacking-vulnerability-discovered-by-cybersecurity-researchers-in-june/ https://voicebot.ai/2020/08/13/amazon-patched-an-alexa-hacki...
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoThis story sounds quite ridiculous, and I'd be reserving skepticism for his version of the events rather than for Google/Amazon
- 72deluxe 6y agoI find it odd that you say you're not a huge fan of providing audio to Amazon, yet have bought a few devices that actually do that and then have proceeded to put them into your home...? For someone who isn't a fan of providing audio, you seem to have willfully done so. I am genuinely confused.
- matwood 6y agoThe OP could not be a huge fan of sending the audio, but find the utility of the devices worth it for now. Very little in life is binary, and instead we make these sorts of trade offs every day.
- TYPE_FASTER 6y agoThey are not currently plugged in, and I don't have any plans to do so.
- 72deluxe 6y agoSorry, I misunderstood you saying that you had them to indicate they were in use.