As an engineer married to a programmer listen we all make our choices in convenience vs security. My loaded gun is aimed at my smart bulbs for when I decide they’ve been listening in on me. The wife doesn’t like that I bought them.
Man, the real problem with smart devices is that most of the time they don’t listen to me. I can’t count the times that I’ve had to repeat “Hey Google” 4 times, louder every time, until it finally hears me. And then starts playing music instead of turning off the lights.
In all seriousness I do agree though - it really is a balancing act between convenience and security.
I’ve seen it happen with my mother’s Alexa, but not with my Google Home. And when hers does start listening it stops pretty quick when it realizes that it misheard the wake word.
As an engineer married to a programmer listen we all make our choices in convenience vs security. My loaded gun is aimed at my smart bulbs for when I decide they’ve been listening in on me. The wife doesn’t like that I bought them.
Man, the real problem with smart devices is that most of the time they don’t listen to me. I can’t count the times that I’ve had to repeat “Hey Google” 4 times, louder every time, until it finally hears me. And then starts playing music instead of turning off the lights.
In all seriousness I do agree though - it really is a balancing act between convenience and security.
You’re forgetting the 1/100 time where you say nothing and it decides to start listening.
Glad I don’t have any of that garbage around now.
I’ve seen it happen with my mother’s Alexa, but not with my Google Home. And when hers does start listening it stops pretty quick when it realizes that it misheard the wake word.
At least you don’t have to shout at it to stop listening I guess.