Re:Amazon Echo
by Crito on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:48PM
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Can I, as a consumer that hypothetically owns one of these, control the software that is running on it?
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Re:Amazon Echo
by Someone1234 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @01:05PM
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Can you, as a consumer control the baseband on your cellphone?
In practice, "No." to both. Which suggests that you are far more confident than you should be.
Amazon publishes the leadership principles that they demand their employees aspire to: http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?node=2393650...
Look over those for a moment. Assume for the moment that Amazon engineers and their management take them seriously.
When Amazon employees working on this project raised concerns about privacy, do you think that they were berated? Or do you think that they were heard out? The sort of attitude that you have towards these concerns is exactly what so many people fear. It is part of the reason those guideline principles were created.
Re:Amazon Echo
by vezzy-fnord on Thursday November 06, 2014 @01:24PM
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I suppose with a lot of constraints that you can, using something like OsmocomBB: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/