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April 26, 2018 02:09 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/R93jaQNaGII/user-supplied-listening-device.html
Security researchers can turn Alexa into a transcribing, always-on listening device
Checkmarx researchers including Erez Yalon have created a "rogue Alexa skill" that bypasses Amazon's security checks: it lurks silently and unkillably in the background of your Alexa, listening to all speech in range of it and transcribing it, then exfiltrating the text and audio of your speech to the attacker. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/R93jaQNaGII/user-supplied-listening-device.html
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