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I think amazon solved this partly with hardcoding "alexa" as the wake up word. Meaning a specialized program monitors for "alexa" and ignores everything else an
by lukan 2y ago
I think amazon solved this partly with hardcoding "alexa" as the wake up word. Meaning a specialized program monitors for "alexa" and ignores everything else and does not record.
Smart TVs might work similar, but I surely won't have anything like it in my home anyway.
- doublerabbit 2y agoPartly yes, but the microphone is still on, you have no access to the code so how can you determine that a malicious actor isn't listening in?
- lukan 2y agoYou won't know that with any other microphone either. Also any loud speaker to be precise (they can be used as microphones). But like I said, I don't want to have those devices either and my smartphone has a removable battery ..
- sixothree 2y agoThat would be reassuring if there was literally any way to verify this.