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January 10, 2020 07:49 pm GMT
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Report: Cortana recordings were protected with 'no security measures'
It's not like your voice-assistant conversations ever involve private information, right?
A report from the Guardian, which relies on an ex-Microsoft contractor as a source, claims that Cortana audio recordings were protected with "no security measures" until possibly as recently as last summer. Many of these recordings, which in some cases included audio clips from accidental activations of the smart assistant, were allegedly easily accessible over the Chinese internet with minimal safeguards.
How minimal? Well, according to the unnamed contractor, all they had to do was log into a web portal via their Chrome browser. What's more, the contractors, based in China, were all reportedly told to use the same password. Read more...
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