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Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by nix0n on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:16AM (#43389463)
This claim is not extraordinary.

The anecdotes have added up, and it is now an ordinary claim.

Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by guntars on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:33AM (#43389610)
Only in circles that don’t understand technology and frankly logic. To prove that it’s happening _one_ hacker needs to show that there’s constant flash drive / network traffic while the mic is enabled that also correlates with the entropy in the audio.
Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by freejazz on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:18PM (#43390092)
LOGIC he screamed as he threw his hands up in the air, LOGIC!!
Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by ranger_danger on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:27PM (#43390192)
I have personally verified that my device most certainly does not send constant internet traffic... however I think we can't rule out the possibility that it might buffer the data and send it later.
Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by guntars on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:57PM (#43392168)
We can, in fact, rule it out by dissecting the device and monitoring chip traffic. That’s my whole point - people who understand technology know that it’s nearly impossible for Amazon devices to routinely spy on conversations in people’s homes without detection.
Re:The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enab... by nix0n on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:05AM (#43400333)
> We can, in fact, rule it out by dissecting the device and monitoring chip traffic

Has this been done?