Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by LinuxBender on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:47PM
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Audits of controls are about ensuring the longevity of the business. They are entirely orthogonal to ethics or business models.
And yes, I am proudly paranoid. History and experience have confirmed the need for my paranoia for many decades.
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by jedberg on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:56PM
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> Audits of controls are about ensuring the longevity of the business.
You must not have suffered a SOX audit before. Part of the audit is technical.
Also, the SEC greatly frowns upon lying about your business.
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by LinuxBender on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:17PM
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I have suffered every kind of audit, many times. I know of many technical facets of every business I worked for that would never have been a part of any of those audits.
Do you know of any published Amazon audits that describe in detail what specifically around Alexa is audited, if anything?
You guys are way to paranoid. They're a public company and they are constantly under audit. They have explicitly stated in their white papers that the device has two computers, one that just listens for the "Alexa" keyword that activates the other one for signal processing.
Do you really think they would lie on those white papers? The government would be so far up their ass with fines it would be ridiculous. Not to mention people have actually done tear downs of the device and you can see the two computers and monitor the power input to each one as it runs. The "dumb" computer with minimal memory would be having to store hours of speech data until you say the keyword so it can transmit to the other computer.