On Fri, 25 May 2018 17:51:06 -0700, OFWW
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 18:49:21 -0400, J. Clarke
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 17:01:22 +0000, Spalted Walt
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:32:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich
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Electric Comet on Mon, 5 Feb 2018
10:04:20 -0800 typed in rec.woodworking the following:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:21:00 -0800
pyotr filipivich wrote:

Because I do not want it in my house.



i think the mycroft mark ii will be good because skills can be added
by the community instead of waiting for the maker to do it and then
they probably never would anyway unless it was to their benefit and
had a profit motive

My issues is more along the lines of "Why would I want to put a
microphone and camera in my house which is connected to the Internet?"

Even worse, a camera and microphone that's controlled by Bezos, or
similar.

I'm not paranoid, I'm convinced.

My son gave us a Google speaker for Christmas. It still sits in its
box. I have no idea what I would do with such a thing. Paperweight?

"A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a
private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa --
the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and that the recorded audio was
sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the
family’s contact list..."

http://amp.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/05/24/amazon-alexa-records-conversation/

FWIW, I have occasionally had to give Cortana time-out after she
started talking back to the television.

Are you aware that speak commands in audible to people can be embedded
in song, music, videos, etc. And it has been shown to be able to
instigate an order? So it isn't wise to have your CC #'s stored online
with various vendors.

Cortana's not that bright. It can't even turn on the Amazon music
player, let alone buy anything.

And part of my job is making bots do things. It's not nearly as
simple as TV shows make it out to be.