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Alexa shuts down when asked "Are You connected to the CIA?"
It started with one video and quickly went viral with many owners as the question.
After this went viral Alexa now answers "No I work for Amazon", but shuts down when asked if "Amazon works for the CIA" (@ 3:50)
Using anything that records your voice and then transmits it over the internet is literally begging to get hacked.
Samsung and Sony Smart TVs do it, your (modern) car does it, Amazon Echo does it, Google Assistant does it...
Anyone who uses those any of those devices and doesn't believe that anyone in the hacking world can redirect (or join) the internet transmission of their own voice is fooling themselves. The Vault7 leak proves it.
And even if it isn't a hacker, there is a case before the courts right now in the Midwest in which a murder was committed in a residence that had an Amazon voice activated device (I think it was Alexa). The police have issued a subpoena to Amazon for the recording of the murder. Amazon is fighting the subpoena.
If it has a microphone, assume both that the mic is hot and that the wrong people will hear it...
Using anything that records your voice and then transmits it over the internet is literally begging to get hacked.
Samsung and Sony Smart TVs do it, your (modern) car does it, Amazon Echo does it, Google Assistant does it...
Anyone who uses those any of those devices and doesn't believe that anyone in the hacking world can redirect (or join) the internet transmission of their own voice is fooling themselves. The Vault7 leak proves it.
And even if it isn't a hacker, there is a case before the courts right now in the Midwest in which a murder was committed in a residence that had an Amazon voice activated device (I think it was Alexa). The police have issued a subpoena to Amazon for the recording of the murder. Amazon is fighting the subpoena.
If it has a microphone, assume both that the mic is hot and that the wrong people will hear it...
Yeah, I believe the device is Alexa in that murder case. The fact the police can't get to the recording probably shows most consumers are safe. However, I think that in situations like these companies should give out the evidence. Not saying Amazon should tell them how to hack into system, but perhaps reach compromise. For example, Amazon can say give us the device we'll extract the data for you, that way third parties don't know the process that went into extracting the data.
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