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Re:Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini Camera by jojobas on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:25AM (#33690199)
>enables the microphone

The microphone is always listening, waiting for the wake word. If it can discern a wake word, it can speech-to-text everything (or will be able very soon), good luck noticing your daily <10kb of compressed text in what it sends up.

And this camera is a security camera, it's designed to send up video and audio 24/7.

Re:Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini Camera by chrisan on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:42AM (#33691473)
> And this camera is a security camera, it's designed to send up video and audio 24/7.

Definitely not blink.

These cheapskates only stream like 10 seconds before prompting you "continue?"

Re:Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini Camera by deanCommie on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:50PM (#33695558)
If we're going to enter the land of "if it's possible (or not possible today, but possible very soon)", are you concerned with your router embedding such a capability? Your phone has a microphone. Are you concerned that Google or Apple are sending 10kb of compressed text daily after recording you all day?

If not, why not?

Re:Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini Camera by jojobas on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:05PM (#33697913)
I am, therefore my AOSP phone is google-free.
Re:Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini Camera by prattcmp on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:59PM (#33701212)
Yes.