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What 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?
by leoedin 6y ago
What 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