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Re:Amazon refuses to let police access US murder suspect’s E... by notsoeasy on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @09:20AM (#13270597)
> AFAIK you can root the device pretty easily, so you should be at least able to verify that the main OS of the device isn't doing this.

And if it doesn't, you still don't know. So why even bother? Why not simply throw it and anyone peddling it out of the window? That's making sure rather than derping about.

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Re:Amazon refuses to let police access US murder suspect’s E... by ryanlol on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:49AM (#13271713)
Do you really have 0 microphones in your house? What about speakers, those are basically microphones too?

If you have access to the main OS it's also relatively easy to verify that the secretly recorded audio data isn't being uploaded anywhere, unless these devices have some secret radio equipment in them.

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