Just because youâre paranoid doesnât mean they arenât out to get youâŠ
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Youâre only paranoid if they ARENâT out to get you
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I hate being in homes with Alexa or Alexa style products. i canât believe they convinced people to bug their own homes.
Yet you probably visit them with a cellphone in your pocket - which is exactly the same thing. Ever thought of that?
ok so⊠open source astro? maybe gut astro and replace with a pi? maybe hack it and load your own shit on?
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Unlikely. They probably locked down the hardware tighter than a nunâs ass on Good Friday so that it only runs signed software and itâs impossible to repurpose. Remember: they make money off of the data the device collects, not the device itself. Theyâll go out of their way to make sure you canât use it for anything else.
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sure, but i canât see the economy of securing the motor controllers, cameras, and sensors with some sort of cryptography⊠i mean tear out the main board and replace with a pi and support electronics to connect up all that shit and give it a new brain
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yeah but my phone isnât solely a data collection device for on of the wealthiest men on the planet.
They donât have to. They just have to make it inconvenient enough that itâs not worth the hassle. If you have to gut it right down to the chassis and build stepper motor controllers and replace the mainboard and everything just to reuse the moving bits and the case, itâs not worth it.
So your main beef isnât that youâre being spied on, itâs who profits from it, is that it? Interesting take 
Then youâre gonna hate this: your phone is making billions for a company that donât pay their fair share of taxes, a lot of super-wealthy execs and shareholders of which probably have mansions in the tax havens they stash their money in, and yachts and private jets to get there in style. Note that I didnât specify which brand of phone.
I more deal with the fact that itâs basically impossible to do more that just survive in the modern world without a smart phone.
But I can try and keep some info from Bezos specifically.
You can try and deny as much of your data from all of them big data companies too. Thatâs what I do. But yes, youâre correct, it makes modern life rather difficult, and it takes a stringent commitment to it - which is exactly what they want.
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And I unfortunately think itâs going to get much worse before it gets better.
Also I need to pull the trigger and get off facebook and instagram.
i dunno⊠it seems to me that things like moving parts and nice injection molded case with beer cozy and a nice display and telescoping camera wand thingy are the hard bits for most hackers and tinkerers⊠whereas plopping in a pi and doing some electronics tinkering and some software magic is more manageable.
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I use Alexa in my home, I honestly feel sorry for anyone going through the data they collect, all they will hear in my house is Star Trek re-runs and my wife and I discussing what we want for dinner. 
if someone wants to go through the trouble of trying to profit from that then they have my blessing.
Iâm just a nobody anyway
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Personal data harvested from nobodies is now a more lucrative business than oil.
And they can get so precise in what they can glean from your info that a few years ago target knew someoneâs teenage daughter was pregnant before the father did. And that was in 2012.
The Incredible Story of How Target Exposed a Teen Girlâs Pregnancy (businessinsider.com)
it gets really odd when someone using the same internet access starts googling things, then other people using that same public IP start seeing ads for that in their feeds and what-not.
trying to check your facebook using local library wifi gets some very interesting ads
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Are the daring us to start a dystopia thread?
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