Lex Cybernetica Podcast

“Unplug your Alexa devices right now, you're being hacked” was the warning Danielle (last name withheld) got when she picked up the phone recently. On the other side was one of her husband's employees, who’d received a recording of the couple’s conversation - “You sat there talking about hardwood floors”. This evil machination was carried out - due to “an extremely rare occurrence”, according to Amazon’s comment to KIRO-TV - by the couple’s aptly named Amazon Echo, a constantly-eavesdropping machine people for some reason welcome into their homes. A basic couple normie-talking about hardwood floors is unfortunately not criminal as of writing, but murder is. In November 2015, James Andrew Bates hosted a football party at his Arkansas home, which ended with one dead guest in the hot tub. Police investigation found an Amazon Echo in the kitchen, and asked Amazon for any recording which may have occurred during the fatal event. Amazon declined, claiming they hadn’t received “a valid and binding legal demand prop