Off Topic Alexa

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Treble said:
This is way above your station Sky. It's all coded these days...

Terrorist 1: You gonna get some Sandisk?

Terrorist 2: Yeh what's the root to Buck Palace?

Terrorist 1: True dat, gonna have me some Fire HD ya get me!
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yo I'll PM you my address, I need to try that ****.
 
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It's funny isn't it that people are worried about something that's not been proven to be listening to you without your knowledge yet happy to own and use multiple devices that have been proven to be covert information gatherers and privacy invaders.
 
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I've discovered that I can access Alexa by saying "mylegsache" instead of "Alexa".

So I go around saying things like "Mylegsache, set a time for 5 minutes".

"Mylegsache, bed lights on 50%".

"Mylegsache, pause TV"

I almost never say "Alexa " anymore. The trick is to say MyLegsAche as one word.
 
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Kebab has a big said:
I've discovered that I can access Alexa by saying "mylegsache" instead of "Alexa".

So I go around saying things like "Mylegsache, set a time for 5 minutes".

"Mylegsache, bed lights on 50%".

"Mylegsache, pause TV"

I almost never say "Alexa " anymore. The trick is to say MyLegsAche as one word.
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Where the **** did you get that saying from ?
 
Julian Edelman said:
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Where the **** did you get that saying from ?
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I was sick one night and I said to the Mrs "My legs ache and I have a headache".

Alexa lit up and ominously said "goodbye". Still not sure what she heard to make her say "goodbye" but it was funny at the moment...

I tried to duplicate the call and response and couldn't... But did learn in the process that Alexa turns on when I say "mylegsache" as long as I say it fast and as one word. Now that's just what I call her.
 
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johnsonsbaby said:
You make some good points but it's all linked to a belief that these devices are on permanent listening mode and recording every conversation in the room. I don't believe they are or do. That's ok, we can disagree on that.

I have genuine questions which the conspiracy theory still hasn't answered. We're told that recording starts when you say the trigger word. This is either true or false. If it's true, which I believe it is, I can go to the appropriate amazon page or ask Alexa directly to delete the recordings. If it's false then there had to be two recording lists per account, the ones you can delete and the rest of the recordings which you (some of you)believe to be everything spoken in the room the device is in. Questions: how do they separate the stuff being recorded into two lots so that they get to keep a secret set of recordings? where are they storing this humongous amount of recordings? Who ( which individuals or organisations,).would be interested in hours and hours and hours worth of unidentifiable mundane conversations?

The Alexa device has to be registered to an Amazon account but it can be gifted so the account holder isn't necessarily the same person who has the device in their home. They really are pretty much unidentifiable unless,, you choose to attach it to an ordering account which needs a delivery address and even then it's not necessarily the address where the Alexa device 'lives'.

I'm a very private person , not on any social media,, will never post a picture of myself or family anywhere or send any to friends in case they unwittingly post them on their social media. And I'm not the least bit worried about Alexa. Phone and computer, yes.
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I don't no the exact answers to your question on how its technically done but probably as follows:

Its a form of big data - I imagine they have hardware that listens out to specifics products, buzzwords, phrases and stores that data.

Big data definition which I feel is relevant is as follows:

"Big data" is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software".

Basically computers - or several of them collect the key data from tons of information available - like listening to key words and products within the waffle of everyday conversation.
 
Sharpe* said:
I don't no the exact answers to your question on how its technically done but probably as follows:

Its a form of big data - I imagine they have hardware that listens out to specifics products, buzzwords, phrases and stores that data.

Big data definition which I feel is relevant is as follows:

"Big data" is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software".

Basically computers - or several of them collect the key data from tons of information available - like listening to key words and products within the waffle of everyday conversation.
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If any of that was true wouldn't somebody have found some evidence to support it in the 5 years since Alexa has been released?

Also, why are you okay with using whatever device you use to access the internet when we know without a doubt that your information is being collected and used via phones and computers but suspicious about a device were no proof has been found to back up your theory

Edit: just re-read this, it sounds a bit aggressive, sorry, it's not meant to be. I'm doing two things at once. <laugh>
 
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Kebab has a big said:
I was sick one night and I said to the Mrs "My legs ache and I have a headache".

Alexa lit up and ominously said "goodbye". Still not sure what she heard to make her say "goodbye" but it was funny at the moment...

I tried to duplicate the call and response and couldn't... But did learn in the process that Alexa turns on when I say "mylegsache" as long as I say it fast and as one word. Now that's just what I call her.
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Have you tried other things like "my balls are soar", "my vagina's dry" or "I so horny" ?
 
johnsonsbaby said:
If any of that was true wouldn't somebody have found some evidence to support it in the 5 years since Alexa has been released?

Also, why are you okay with using whatever device you use to access the internet when we know without a doubt that your information is being collected and used via phones and computers but suspicious about a device were no proof has been found to back up your theory.
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As I've said I use a VPN when on the internet which means I can't be traced and the pages I look at cannot be tracked.

Link to what a VPN does and its benefits - there is a useful video on the link:

https://www.expressvpn.com/what-is-vpn

In regards Alexa listening in - here are a few of the tons of articles talking about this subject:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanba...ays-listening-to-your-conversations-analysis/

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/...-details-of-your-life-and-its-creepy-as-hell/
 
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