(Dropping mailinglists other than LibTech...) On 04/19/2018 09:22 AM, Phil Shapiro wrote: > I do not own an Alexa device and am wary of privacy issues in > general.
If /you're/ wary of privacy issues, then why encourage others to use it? > At the same time, I think there are ways of using this device that do > not raise privacy concerns. I think you're wrong; I don't think there is a way to use this device in a way that does not raise privacy concerns, at all. The same is true for Google Home. Just like malware tries to establish persistence on your machines, these devices exist to establish persistence for their true owners - which ain't you. The parallels with malware go further than that, but I'll leave it there... If you really must do something like this, consider Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycroft_(software) ) enclosed as a picroft (https://mycroft.ai/documentation/picroft/); it's not ideal, it still reaches out to someone else's servers, but at least it's open source, it's a start... and you can modify it to prevent it from doing that. There's a repository of skills, written in Python, over here: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at zakwh...@stanford.edu.
