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Old 12-24-2019, 10:11 AM   #4035
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Originally Posted by OtinG View Post
Sounds like "fake news" from a British tabloid to me. The Alexa service is far from perfect, but this story sounds extremely suspect. Perhaps someone hacked into her device, but I suspect this is just pure "fake news" BS.

Indeed. And "hacking" in this case, for the non-tech-savvy, could simply be someone in that other room with the other Alexa device saying "Alexa, announce '...stab yourself.'"

A news report should have at least mentioned the log of what the device heard and said from the app.

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