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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by Johnny555 on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:01PM (#18904873)
He's not talking about a rasberry pi in general, he's talking about Project Alias, the device featured in this article, and the first step in the instructions is connecting the Pi to your Wifi so you can download the software.

So yeah, this project turns the raspberry pi into an internet connected listening device.

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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by djreynolds on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:41PM (#18905782)
Also says in the same instructable that once the device is trained that there's no need to have the device connected anymore. It also doesn't need to be connected to the internet - you just need to be able to get to it via a browser with a microphone - I was able to train the device with no connection to the internet.
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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by pacala on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:20PM (#18905042)
Great point. What happened with good old physical connections via USB cables?
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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by Johnny555 on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:42PM (#18905235)
It's probably the same reason that people started installing listening devices in their homes in the first place -- convenience. Few people want to walk around and plug in a cable to update/reconfigure their devices.
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