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   cR0w :cascadia: (cr0w@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 18:04:31 JST cR0w :cascadia:

   People keep posting about destroying or getting rid of Alexa devices because of the blatant creepiness, but I wonder if it would be better to leave them in a box or something away from people with an AM radio playing different stations 24 / 7. I don't know enough about how the Alexa devices work but the idea of creating noise for their creepiness to parse through entertains me.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

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     kajer (kajer@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 18:04:31 JST kajer

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     @cR0w I got a free nest mini I still use as a voice announcer box for my home assistant instance. The condition of using it is neutering the microphone MEMS on the board. There were 3 microphones on the board that I cut the traces to.

     The placebo switch for disabling the microphone traces directly to the CPU, so call me skeptical that it actually did anything in regards to muting the microphones