Echo or Alexa

[mix4fix]

Anybody use Echo or Alexa devices?

[Pelliott321]

The Ukrainians are listening

[ratbagp]

If the Elinore speakers can truly 'disappear', we could put out two of the Echo / Alexa devices and we might think they are making all the noise.

I probably won't get them because I would lie awake at night wondering if they were set up with correct polarity.

ray

[Roscoe Primrose]

As an IT professional, I’ll never have either one in my house..

[tomp]

Huge security risk.

[pboser]

Roscoe, can you please elaborate on why? There’s a lot of info out there but it’s hard to know the value of the sources.

[Roscoe Primrose]

Tom pretty much nailed it....

[ratbagp]

A quick search revealed these alternate viewpoints.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/ex-nsa-privacy-expert-how-likely-your-amazon-echo-is-to-be-hacked.html

https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/news/amazon-echo-security-risk/

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/how-to-secure-your-alexa-device/

Personally I don't like the idea of talking to a computer. With my IT background and aura the damn computer is supposed to sense what I want it to do.

ray

[Cogito]

Both are pretty useless widgets and a huge security and privacy risk. The will record all sounds in the home and upload to google/amazon if they are plugged in. Stay away from them.

[mix4fix]

is their a device you can buy and just provide a source for the free internet channels that exist?