Yuuup

What cracked me up was the dude that was interviewed and in perfect English he talked about missing buffalo wildwings

You KNOW he got deported and was just trying to get back in.

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@PreschoolFightClub. I saw stories like this and am like this is why I dont buy voice activated shit

Their camera doorbell also takes your face and puts the shit into a database

Prob working up to minority report level

I have interesting things about Amazon's home products as I did some software work on them

Do tell

They're listening to me poop arnt they

@Whats gay anymoreand every time you touch yourself

so i did firmware reliability testing on the previous generation of amazon's echo and nest devices

the company i worked for got what is typically known as "breadbox" versions of each device (proof of concept builds) as well as alpha and beta builds of production models

on the back end, there was about .9gb of allocated memory we could not access through python but when we ran any voice command tests or paired bluetooth devices, we noticed that allocated memory would increase. not a significant amount, usually around a few hundred kb, but at times it got up to a mb.

however, when the device would sync with amazon cloud servers, the next morning, the allocated memory would decrease to around .9gb again

the tools we used to monitor bluetooth radio activity, wifi activity, and ethernet activity all tracked packets that were being sent from the amazon echo devices around that time

so while none of us were testing or even active with the devices, and they were off (no power indicator lights, ensured not in sleep mode prior to completing our shifts) they were sending data

one of the builds amazon gave us to test wasn't as locked down as the others

so we got to see the data that was being recorded and sent

and it was not good

gps data, device id's of bluetooth devices paired as well as network information, the voice data being collected was not surprising as the amazon devs were forward with that information being collected

however, when we logged into one of our vm's with the test email we used for an amazon id, we noticed we were getting ads based off of the devices connected to the amazon products

specifically amazon counterparts

I knew from the get go that Alexa and similar home appliances were cataloging and sending off data from connected devices

the only shady thing, is that's not mentioned up front.

at all

Of course not

but i cannot effectively communicate the sheer amount of ads we got from amazon, affiliates, and sponsored ads based off of the devices we had connected

and sure that may seem meaningless, but we ran python commands to kill these things as we were told to do in test parameters

they turned themselves back on to transmit the data

LMAO

Jesus if that doesnt sound like malware, I dont know what is

the gps info being sent sucks too

because part of it was going to cloud servers

Can you gain access to the source code?

not anymore, laid off last year

But could you

that's a hard maybe

I wonder if removing the command lines would solve that issue

that's beyond my expertise with python and adb

so besides cloud servers' default location, the data was sent somewhere in washington and colorado