Gratuitous Cloud Shared Spycams with Mic's in Your Bedroom: Now A Reality

juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 14:24:05 PDT 2017


On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:59:48 -0400
John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> > On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:03 AM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:37:40 -0400
> > grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera
> > 
> >> Amazon is pitching it
> >> as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your
> >> friends
> > 
> >    I can't believe americans are so fuckingly stupid but then I
> >    think again, and it makes sense.
> 
> of course I agree, but it seems to me this type of "assistant" tech
> that listens to everything you say and watches everything you do is
> just going to keep getting more and more popular and pushed more and
> more by the insatiable corporate maw to fucking gorge on marketable
> data...
> 
> Before it gets to a point where it's hard (or impossible) to escape
> it would be nice if someone put some serious thought into integrating
> layers of PKI crypto into this stuff for privacy 


	I guess you're being sarcastic? =P

	by the way, vice.com is behind cloudflare and doesn't work at
	all without JS. I als wasted a few minutes trying a
	couple of free proxys and they give a blank page too.

	vice.com, very consistent privacy advocates.


> (kinda like what
> they had on Mars in The Quantum Thief). Heh ;)
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> >> when you're not sure if your outfit is cute, but it's also got
> >> a built-in app called StyleCheck that is worth some further
> >> dissection. [...] "All photos and video captured with your Echo
> >> Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo
> >> Look app until a customer deletes them," a spokesperson for the
> >> company said. "You can delete the photos or videos associated with
> >> your account anytime in the Echo Look App." Motherboard also asked
> >> if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would
> >> be sold to third parties; the company did not address that
> >> question.
> > 
> 




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