News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder ... by jeremyjh on Saturday November 10, 2018 @10:01AM (#18421545)
That would result in a much larger payload, and a payload size that is variable depending on how long it has been, and how much audio was record-able between requests. But if instead we observe a small payload of constant size given the same request, regardless of how long between requests, then we can reasonably be assured the device is not doing this.
Re:NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder ... by tkxxx7 on Saturday November 10, 2018 @12:37PM (#18422370)
Or you can be reasonably sure the device is only sending a payload of max size N at a time, padding your requests with some recording data when it can
Re:NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder ... by jeremyjh on Saturday November 10, 2018 @12:48PM (#18422434)
Any smart tv could be doing the same thing. Why do you think that Amazon in particular is likely to be conducting a massive, secret and illegal surveillance operation?
Re:NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder ... by andrepd on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:45AM (#18432532)
>Any smart tv could be doing the same thing.

And many have been found to, which kind of proves my point.

>Why do you think that Amazon in particular is likely to be conducting a massive, secret and illegal surveillance operation?

Uhm, because it makes money? Isn't that the answer to any "why" in our current economic system?

Re:NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder ... by tkxxx7 on Saturday November 10, 2018 @12:50PM (#18422442)
Many smart TVs have already been found to spy on you. Which answers your question.