Re:Google Home
by tree_of_item on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:46PM
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People keep bringing this up and it's silly. It can just record what you say and send it later.
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It makes literally no sense for the Hey Siri functionality to do that. This is just a very slightly altered version of "it's an internet-enabled device with a microphone, it could be hacked and told to turn on its microphone remotely", which is a legitimate, if fairly paranoid, complaint that applies to all such devices, even fully open-source and open-hardware ones.