Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by rootusrootus on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:55PM
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I would bet that the Echo and devices like it are amongst the most monitored consumer devices in existence. Plenty of people either already have enough network monitoring to catch it misbehaving, or will install that monitoring just for the sake of catching it. In a weird sense it's like open source software in that regard. I haven't read all the code myself, I really on group knowledge to reassure me. Same for Echo. As a practical matter the Echo and other similar devices are difficult to turn into full-time listen-and-record devices unnoticed.
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Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by mieseratte on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:28PM
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> As a practical matter the Echo and other similar devices are difficult to turn into full-time listen-and-record devices unnoticed.
Why would it be harder to pwn than anything else?
Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by gknoy on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:36PM
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I think the GP meant that it's harder for _the vendor_ to do it, because there are assuredly many privacy-attuned nerds who would run wireshark a bunch on it and notice when the $ListeningPost becomes an always-on bug.
I don't think they meant to imply that it would be hard to to cause such behavior via malicious action by 3rd parties.