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Re:Rooting the Amazon Echo Dot by pakyr on Saturday July 22, 2023 @11:34PM (#36832348)
If you have an enemy that's committed and skilled enough to break into your house undetected while you're not there just to listen in on you, I feel like they could just plant a bug or something.
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Re:Rooting the Amazon Echo Dot by serf on Saturday July 22, 2023 @11:37PM (#36832358)
in theory a software rooted echo would be superior to a bug; fairly high quality positioning by the victim which ensures good quality recordings and a fair amount of plausible deniability opportunities by the attacker. if discovery was considered inevitable software can be tripped into wiping data or reverting states.
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Re:Rooting the Amazon Echo Dot by interstice on Sunday July 23, 2023 @03:45PM (#36839011)
They could also put a bug in the echo dot. Free power supply!
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Re:Rooting the Amazon Echo Dot by sublinear on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:46AM (#36832606)
These are not mutually exclusive ideas and replacing an existing device is much harder to detect.
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