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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
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
washington kinda makes sense as that's where amazon's devs are
colorado doesn't
they don't even have a server farm out there.
Maybe a 3rd party server farm