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I call absolute bullshit on this. They're losing out on the sale of the device but make up for it 20 fold by selling and manipulating data it collects in your house. This isn't even conspiracy loads of people report Alexa going off randomly without any sort of prompt. Don't tell me the device isn't listening closely to every little conversation you have.
Some hackers have found that there is builtin protection in the hardware that guarantees the led turns on when the device listens