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Amazon's Alexa Recorded a Woman's Private Conversation and Sent it to a Contact
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I have yet to find a post from you when you are critical of Apple. Usually you only talk very positively about Apple which I find little unusual.
Regardless, Homepod is the same problem. If someone hacks in your Homepod you have a massive problem and having that device at home is a big risk.
I like the idea of Homepod at home but not with a microphone. If Apple releases one without all the ******** and gives me just a good speaker then I'll get one but I'm not buying a device with a microphone.
Interesting perspective. Do you use Google to look up information? If so... why? You could always use a phone book or go to the library! The greater truth is that technology makes access to information easier. Some of us are early adopters... some of us are not. That doesn't make us lazy just like that doesn't make you ignorant. We just see technology from a different perspective.
You buy and install 24/7 listening devices in your home and you thought this wouldn't happen?
Man, I'm not sure whether you such increase your dosage or just change meds altogether...
At the very least, maybe, just maybe, not everything should be connected to the internet just because digital technology makes it easy to do so.
Actually seems to be exactly the opposite on this forum these days lately.I agree. However, around here, it breaks down like this:
Unquestionably Fake News:
Absolutely Valid News:
- Anything that implies anything negative about Apple or Apple products
- Anything that implies anything positive about companies or products that compete with Apple
- Anything that implies that Apple is second or lower in any contest where first is considered best
We don't even question the "valid" news, but we'll rip the "fake" news to shreds.
- Anything that implies anything positive about Apple or Apple products
- Anything that implies anything negative about companies or products that compete with Apple
- Anything that implies that Apple is first in any contest where first is considered best
To quote that great Sonny & Cher on the collective consistency: "the beat goes on.... the beat goes on"
Juste because you cant get it to work for you, does not emphatically mean its broken. I use it daily for numerous task and have very little issues. As do probably millions other people.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Actually seems to be exactly the opposite on this forum these days lately.
There are extremists at both ends.
The device you're typing on has a microphone and is connected to the internet.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
And we carry around a device with very sensitive microphones and cameras facing both directions. It also has GPS and knows where we are/go, and much of what we do. But we'll just pretend that only these kinds of devices- perhaps only from Apple competitors- are risky in this way.
I have yet to find a post from you when you are critical of Apple. Usually you only talk very positively about Apple which I find little unusual.
Regardless, Homepod is the same problem. If someone hacks in your Homepod you have a massive problem and having that device at home is a big risk.
I like the idea of Homepod at home but not with a microphone. If Apple releases one without all the ******** and gives me just a good speaker then I'll get one but I'm not buying a device with a microphone.
No “Device” with a microphone, hmm! All the good smart speakers have away to turn off the microphone. User choice option.
That is not the same as not having it. Turning it off won't solve this. And I would dare to say that hacking a smart speaker is probably much easier than an iPhone so yeah, I don't trust these things.
It is a good thing the convo didn’t include banking account information and passwords etc.
Very alarming for Alexa owners.
Very alarming for Alexa owners.
"I didn't really understand the directions, so I'm just going to take an apparently random action rather than ask for clarification."
I've seen humans do similar things...
