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Old 12-24-2019, 10:51 AM   #4037
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
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.
Well to begin with, it was an article on AOL.com. Who uses that anymore? And I noticed absolutely no names for sources listed. They could have at least made up some names. Saying Amazon admitted the issue but never stating who at Amazon supposedly admitted something and with no direct quotes makes it suspect. These kinds of articles are everywhere these days on sites like Facebook and even major news sites. On major news sites scroll down a bit and you will see all the articles labelled as "Sponsored". Those tend to be ads or fake news or anything else other than real news. Many sites don’t even attempt to label them as sponsored so they might look real. Funny how some people will buy into almost any BS. I remember as a young kid standing in the checkout lines with my Mom at the grocery store and seeing the rack of tabloids placed there as impulse buys. Even as a six year old I knew they were BS. But some people choose to believe almost anything.
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