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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by whatshisface on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:00PM (#18729545)
The people who have "hacked and reverse engineered" the Echos don't have access to what happens on the server side. We are facing a situation of either trusting or not trusting, because verification isn't possible.

There should be a word for believing that someone is working for your interests even though you have no reason to, as a counterpart to "conspiracy theory" which implies that you believe that a group is working against your interests without having a good reason to. It's like people have a conspiracy theory where Amazon is conspiring in secret to help them.

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by blacksmith_tb on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:17PM (#18730460)
I'm not sure I follow - just capturing packets from them tells you how much they're sending to their respective motherships, e.g.[1].

Amazon of course is not exactly conspiring to try and get me to buy more stuff from them (they're very upfront about it), which makes them both more crass and also easier to trust in some ways than Google.

1: https://www.iot-tests.org/2017/06/careless-whisper-does-amaz...

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by wwweston on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:46PM (#18729905)
"Credulous" is the boring existing term, I think.

I might enjoy "barnummark" or "candidable."

Some might use the term "optimist" in this sense. Whether it's fair or unfair to call them cynics is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by whatshisface on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:04PM (#18730047)
None of those words have the same bite, in that they don't imply the belief is unfounded and probably wrong.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by ringshall on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:53PM (#18731304)
Credulous does, at least to me. I've always considered it a pejorative term.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by Izkata on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:02PM (#18730381)
Maybe "naive belief"? Almost rhymes, too, so easy to say/remember.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by krageon on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:48AM (#18732573)
There is a word for people like that. In fact, there are many. It's just that they're very, very rude words that we shouldn't use in polite discourse.

If people have a conspiracy theory about secretly being helped by a large faceless power, that would probably fall under the label "pronoia".

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by closetohome on Friday December 21, 2018 @01:09PM (#18735175)
I think the most relevant term to this discussion is Hitchens's razor.
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