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Re:Don't Buy Anyone an Echo by singularity2001 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:21PM (#15853332)
can Wireshark detect when hostile agencies distribute steganographic information over other https packages?

Your “phones can already do this” argument still holds

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Re:Don't Buy Anyone an Echo by singularity2001 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:23PM (#15853355)
what is the name for arguments of the kind “Russia can already nuke us, so let's allow Iran and Kim bombs too”?
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Re:Don't Buy Anyone an Echo by jim-greer on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:06PM (#15853956)
So an Echo is as dangerous as an iPad. Sure, but enough with the FUD.
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Re:Don't Buy Anyone an Echo by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:58AM (#15860154)
It's on the cusp of Sunk Cost, Fallacy of Inertia, and Fallacy of Relative Privation.

The last one is probably closest but it doesn't matter because there are starving children to feed and you're here worrying about names of fallacies, you animal. /s

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Re:Don't Buy Anyone an Echo by adamio on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:04PM (#15853924)
Maybe survivorship bias
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