According to the story linked below, an Amazon Fire Kids tablet was apparently used to spy on somebody, to listen in on Alexa devices in the house, and possibly access other personal information.

Since Amazon says that the device in question was deregistered and they don’t know how it could have gotten access, and since I haven’t done a any digging into the story myself, I don’t know if all the claims in the post are correct/accurate.

But still, it does bring home the fact that what you see in spy/thriller movies theses days might not all be fiction and that we have to be very careful about what we connect to our network of devices and how we dispose of old devices …

https://practical-tech.com/2023/06/13/how-an-amazon-fire-kids-tablet-was-allegedly-used-to-stalk-a-security-pro/

#Amazon #Security #Spying

@f I’m amazed that a security expert would have Amazon devices with cameras and mics throughout their house.

@jefframes I guess all of us have our blindspots? 🙂

@f I follow that gentleman here! He posted several times a while back about everyone needing to sign out of all Amazon devices and change the password, but said he couldn't share more until Amazon addressed it internally.

@AngelaPreston Ah 🙂 Thank you for the confirmation. At least, I know now that it’s legit. It’s gotten to such a state these days that you can’t really be sure of anything unless you’ve verified it yourself a few different ways …

In fact, I was thinking about this most of yesterday about how suspicious I had become, after writing about the Amazon incident. I intended to make a post about how I used to believe in people that I’d never met (like Isaac Asimov) till I started learning about them through the Internet and how that shattered my image of them.

It’s all still very incoherent in my head though and so I’m not sure if I will make that post or not 😛