Your Amazon Echo device is already pretty customisable in terms of what skills you add to it. What you may not realise is that if you don't find a skill out there that's quite what you're looking for, you can actually make your own using Alexa's Skill Blueprints.
The Internet was abuzz recently following a report that a Portland, Oregon family's Amazon Echo allegedly recorded a "private conversation" and sent it to a "random stranger." That sounds a lot more sinister than what actually happened and, thankfully, there's a trick you can do to ensure this doesn't happen to you.
