it's always listening
Mon Mar 11 11:55:14 EDT 2019
Smart-Speakers eavesdropping? Here's an idea:
A voice-operated power switch, that's not on the network. You give a voice command to turn on power to your web speaker, do the things you want Google and Amazon to hear, and then give a voice command to turn the power off. (Maybe also have an auto-shutoff after 5 minutes, in case you forget?) The smart speakers can't be monitoring us when they don't have power. (I'm assuming there's no battery backup in there. Maybe not a good assumption; it doesn't take much battery to record hours of digital audio until the power is back.)
Apparently there's phone apps out there listening to us/everything all the time too, so be careful what you install.
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Smart-Speakers eavesdropping? Here's an idea:
A voice-operated power switch, that's not on the network. You give a voice command to turn on power to your web speaker, do the things you want Google and Amazon to hear, and then give a voice command to turn the power off. (Maybe also have an auto-shutoff after 5 minutes, in case you forget?) The smart speakers can't be monitoring us when they don't have power. (I'm assuming there's no battery backup in there. Maybe not a good assumption; it doesn't take much battery to record hours of digital audio until the power is back.)
Apparently there's phone apps out there listening to us/everything all the time too, so be careful what you install.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1055811.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]