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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] currycourier@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you able to dissect the packet contents tho? I can see the raw hex payloads of any packets on my network but that doesn't really tell me much about the data actually in them

[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can at the very least tell when it is and is not transmitting data when you talk around it. You can set up experiments, like having a casual conversation with and without the "wake word" and compare packets. If it starts spewing data every time you talk, or if it remains mostly idle with just occasional DNS lookups or NTP updates and such, you'll know.