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Re: Amazon Echo Look – Hands-Free Camera and Style Assistant

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I feel like I'm missing a trick here. I'm just clearly not the demographic for this, because though the echo is a popular device, damned if I can figure out what the hell its use case is *that the phone in your pocket can't already do. This adds a camera to the formula and I'm more confused. So they're building a modern cellular telephone in reverse?

It uses machine learning to tell you which outfits look good as far as I know. Which is quite amazing.

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I can understand Amazon Echo. I have one, even though I'm aware of the risks and most of the time am really paranoid about such things, I still use it (for playing music and setting timers or getting news/weather).

I can't, however, understand the Echo Look. I know people like to take selfies and have no problem blasting them out into the internet, but I think Amazon is really playing the risk card here. A camera watching you undress.. what could go wrong?!

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I can understand Amazon Echo. I have one, even though I'm aware of the risks and most of the time really paranoid, I still use it (for playing music and setting timers or getting news/weather).

I can't, however, understand the Echo Look.

I know people like to take selfies and have no problem blasting them out into the internet, but I think Amazon is really playing the risk card here. A camera watching you undress.. what could go wrong?!

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post #8

Last time this was posted, people thought it was a joke, because who would ever want this thing? My sisters and my mom would absolutely use this thing. I'm sure they would think it was really, really cool. (Granted, that is only 2 in 5 sisters, I'm sure the other 3 would think it was silly) Never forget that you live in a bubble. Better yet, try to identify the boundaries of your bubble, and try to move outside of th…

Hey, I keep trying to expand my bubble :)

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post #15

How secure is Echo? I presume that it uses HTTPS. But let's say that your LAN is pwned. Could an adversary MitM the connection, and exfiltrate traffic? I can imagine lulz.

I assume they adhere to best practices, so no, MitM shouldn't be possible. If they don't we would've heard about it already.

Re: Amazon Echo Look – Hands-Free Camera and Style Assistant

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post #8

Last time this was posted, people thought it was a joke, because who would ever want this thing? My sisters and my mom would absolutely use this thing. I'm sure they would think it was really, really cool. (Granted, that is only 2 in 5 sisters, I'm sure the other 3 would think it was silly) Never forget that you live in a bubble. Better yet, try to identify the boundaries of your bubble, and try to move outside of th…

+1. If this is confusing to you, you haven't spent very long evaluating an entire outfit as an ensemble, in a three foot tall mirror. I'm guessing most of the detractors don't realize _just how many_ people spend on the order of at least a couple hours a week figuring out how they look. This is going to sell like hotcakes.

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post #17
post #15

How secure is Echo? I presume that it uses HTTPS. But let's say that your LAN is pwned. Could an adversary MitM the connection, and exfiltrate traffic? I can imagine lulz.

I assume they adhere to best practices, so no, MitM shouldn't be possible. If they don't we would've heard about it already.

OK, but can Echo accommodate enterprise security best practices, which would require that HTTPS be MitMed?

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post #12

After Twitter, emoji, AirBnB, the resurgence of GIFs, and President Trump; I have admitted to myself that I have absolutely no aptitude for predicting success. That said, this is _surely_ going to flop...

Something tells me it's not going to flop and they'll sell at least a couple 10k devices. They know what they are doing, even if we can't understand it.
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