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Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” by mieseratte on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:28PM (#16163338)
> 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?

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Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” by gknoy on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:36PM (#16174184)
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.

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