[ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user's private audio

[Pete Hardie]

$16.99 for that?  Mighty proud of a3.5mm jack and a resistor

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:24 AM Charles Shapiro via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> For your cell phone, there's also a fairly cute hardware solution for the
> truly paranoid..
>
> https://store.boingboing.net/sales/nope-sound-microphone-blocker
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:41 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> On 05/24/2018 02:53 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
>> > Siri on your Apple Phone and Google voice on your Android are always
>> listening.
>>
>> I don't know anything about Apple, but you can turn off voice
>> controls/listening on Android and on Amazon Tablets at the system level.
>>  Never saw anything that showed these settings weren't honored.
>>
>> When Amazon pushed an update that enabled Alexa on their Fire tablets,
>> it was pretty clear they had and easy to disable.
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