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I'm going to guess that it is a little fancier than that, because simply being "always on" would kill the battery, the CPU would have to be constantly running h
by cromwellian 13y ago
I'm going to guess that it is a little fancier than that, because simply being "always on" would kill the battery, the CPU would have to be constantly running hotword detection. It needs to have some kind of extremely low-power hotword detection for this to work. Like with Glass, some of the conspiracy nuts in other forums are out with ideas that its recording everything and piping it to the NSA, but that's unlikely for a device where they've hinted battery life was a major thing they're concentrating on.
- leecbaker 13y agoIn the leaked Rogers video, they say "OK Google now, what is the weather." Maybe that is the keyphrase? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bUmuIEp6dvs http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bUmuI...
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- ryanhuff 13y agoIf so. that would be incredibly annoying. To many syllables to simply for triggering the listen event. How about they ditch the product branding requirement and just go with "OK phone", or even 'OK Google"? Ideally it would be even shorter, but understand why they need something a bit unique. Even so, Star Trek and 2001 had it right.
- mtgx 13y agoYou can change it, but yeah you're right. Not sure what they're thinking. They should just leave it to OK Google.
- magicarp 13y agoIn the case of the recent NSA spying revelations, those "conspiracy nuts" turned out to be correct.
- s_q_b 13y agoTechnical feasibility is not something the NSA can wish away. They're not magic. The fact is that keeping a microphone array active all the time would crush battery life, especially if it was constantly recording and transmitting. Right now, even the FBI can remotely activate the microphone on your phone. Doubt this will change anything in the short run.
- joenathan 13y agoWho's to say the NSA wouldn't just add their own hotwords to the "extremely low-power hotword detection"?
- s_q_b 13y agoSure, but that's a little different than listening to everything. Not to mention trivial to detect. Just watch CPU consumption and start spouting off trigger words.
- joenathan 13y ago>Sure, but that's a little different than listening to everything. The NSA never cared about listening to everything, that would be completely unmanageable, flagging conversations with key phrases has always been the course of action. >Not to mention trivial to detect. Just watch CPU consumption and start spouting off trigger words. It'd also be trivial to detect that you were using a CPU usage monitor and turn off those keywords, viruses do these sorts of things all the time to avoid detection.
- drivebyacct2 13y ago>The NSA never cared about listening to everything, that would be completely unmanageable Someone sure hasn't been paying attention.
- s_q_b 13y agoThat's not correct. Since 2001, the NSA has been retasked to recording all SIGINT information, and figure out what's relevant later. This was the reasoning behind NSA Total Information Awareness (hence the name,) as well as its successor programs including PRISM, FAIRVIEW, MARINA, BASKETBALL, etc. Also, if you want an undectable CPU monitor, just use a temperature sensor strapped to the processor. Temp-monitoring was even used to find TOR hidden services.