Paranoid home: smart smart speaker parasites can protect your privacy

Three versions provide higher security

Do n’t you trust your smart speakers, but do n’t want to have Alexa ’s useful features? Then Paranoid Home provides you with three different smart speaker parasites that can protect your privacy.

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Not smart houses, but paranoid houses-under this motto, a Canadian company sells three different smart speaker parasites. You add this item to Amazon ’s microphone-equipped speakers and prevent speakers with activated microphones from waiting for “Alexa” commands.

Because it is doubtful that smart speakers actually only share voice commands with their manufacturer's servers. After all, Google has had to admit to evaluating the recording. Amazon has also been criticized for secretly recorded language fragments. Coupled with paranoia, this situation should be avoided.

This is how the three paranoid models work

To ensure that Alexa ’s digital ears are actually disabled, Paranoid offers three different models. The cheapest first model is the "Home Button", starting with the mute button on the Echo Dot speaker. To sell voice commands, you must first say "paranoid." Then, a mechanism activates the speaker's mute button and turns on the microphone. Voice commands are offline on all three devices. According to the manufacturer, none of these three devices are connected to the Internet.

If you do n’t think that muting actually disables the microphone, you can use one of the other methods. Before you say "Paranoid", the "Home Wave" model will interfere with the speaker's microphone. You can then send voice commands to the smart speaker.

In order to use the most expensive model called Home Max, it is necessary to intervene inside the smart speaker. After purchase, you can take the speaker to the service center, and the employee installs the parasite between the circuit board and the microphone. Alternatively, you can send the speaker by mail.

Also works with Google speakers

The Home Wave and Home Max versions are also compatible with common Google speakers. According to the manufacturer, more compatible devices should be added in March, but the list has not been expanded.

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All three devices can be pre-sold for $ 39. Equivalent to about 36 euros. The normal price for all three devices is $ 49, or about 45 euros. If there are already privacy parasites in your shopping cart, we will disappoint you. All three devices are currently only sold in the United States and cannot be shipped to Germany. In Germany, the use of so-called "complaints" is not legally harmless. The ultrasound bracelet's restriction to prevent Alexa from listening failed.