Re:Amazon to hand over Echo audio from alleged murder after ...
by Karunamon on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:08PM
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Echo probably does not send the recordings other than the ones it's expected and advertised to send. No proof of any kind exists to even begin to suggest it does something other than that.
The device itself has been rooted via a set of contacts compatible with what you'd use with a Raspberry Pi: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/4inesj/rooting_the_...
Re:Amazon to hand over Echo audio from alleged murder after ...
by dandelion_lover on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:18PM
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>other than the ones it's expected and advertised to send
and the ones that it mistakenly accepted as triggers, at least.
>No proof of any kind exists to even begin to suggest it does something other than that.
No proof exists to suggest anything about Echo. It is a question of trust. This is why I mentioned trust in my previous response.
Anyway, thanks for an interesting link.
Upd: > the behavior would be blatantly obvious to the kind of people that run Wireshark for funsies
Echo probably does not send the recordings all the time, it would be too simple to detect. However, it could simply send random parts of the recordings or send the data by a trigger from Amazon/random hackers. We can only say for sure that we have no possibility to check what it really does, since it is proprietary. I prefer not to trust for-profit companies (when it's possible). I only trust the source code.