[HN Gopher] Why would you ever trust Amazon's Alexa after this?
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       Why would you ever trust Amazon's Alexa after this?
        
       Author : miles
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-02-28 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | fphhotchips wrote:
       | This style of writing was annoying to me, and I couldn't make it
       | all the way through the article, but I take it that you don't
       | need to _install_ these skills before Alexa will go ahead and
       | just pull them in from a third party? That seems... risky, at
       | best.
        
         | civilized wrote:
         | > What they found was a security Emmenthal that would make a
         | mouse wonder whether there was any cheese there at all.
         | 
         | One of the most overwrought sentences I've ever read
        
       | jeffgreco wrote:
       | ...because I've never found a single Alexa skill to be worth
       | installing?
       | 
       | Smart home controls, music and weather are all that I (and from
       | what I've heard anecdotally, most others) use it for.
        
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