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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by Arelius on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:23PM (#18904583)
The theory is that we can still estimate how much data goes over the network. So if it were sending all audio to the cloud, we'd see.

It does however not exclude other information, like sending keyword flags, or storing audio fragments to send along with other messages later on.

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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by dcbadacd on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:31PM (#18905137)
Neither does it exclude the possibility of any "time-bomb"-type of features or future OTA updates altering the software's behavior.
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