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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by Dylan16807 on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:32AM (#33689879)
Not "because".

Dedicated wakeup chips can be designed to have a different matrix shoved in for the word they're detecting. Google presumably did not do this, but they could have.

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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by bobsmooth on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:40AM (#33691067)
Adding more communication between the main chip and the wake-up chip would leave more room for privacy intrusion.
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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by ethbr0 on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:40AM (#33691867)
It's not more communication: it's different read-only data in the wake-up chip.
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