{"id":34177,"date":"2020-04-02T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c36eacee-4dde-4546-800b-29509163b2da"},"modified":"2020-04-02T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:53:11","slug":"this-weird-new-gadget-stops-amazons-alexa-spying-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/this-weird-new-gadget-stops-amazons-alexa-spying-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"This weird new gadget stops Amazon’s Alexa spying on you"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Your spying gadget needs an anti-spying gadget. Somewhere, John Le Carr\u00e9 sniggers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paranoid<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the column that launched screams around America.<\/p>\n

Last week, I wrote about<\/a> a UK law firm that suggested Amazon<\/a>‘s Alexa and her cohorts should be switched off before you have any confidential work-related conversations.<\/p>\n

Now that you’re likely working from home<\/a>, this seemed like important news.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I received many tweets from the nation’s freedom fighters, insisting that no, they’d never have an Amazon Echo, Google Home or Apple HomePod in their castles.<\/p>\n

However, I also heard from the inventively paranoid. Or, rather from the people behind Paranoid.<\/p>\n

“Yo,” these people said. “We have a gadget for that.”<\/p>\n

“Not another bloody gadget,” I grunted. “Isn’t it the ultimate in never-ending Horror Hall Of Mirrors when a new gadget tries to solve the security problem of another gadget?”<\/p>\n

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(Yes, I paraphrased that exchange somewhat.)<\/p>\n

But here, my friends, is Paranoid<\/a>. This is a product that automatically mutes your Amazon Echo, Google Home or the like. Until, that is, you really want to talk to it\/her\/them.<\/p>\n

I wanted to read all the PR blurb, of course. First, though, I went to YouTube to find what Paranoid calls its “Fun Commercials.”<\/p>\n

Oh, what fun. Here<\/a>, for example, is a family that just can’t understand why they’re getting mobile ads for things they talk about at home.<\/p>\n

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