[WayneS]

Siri has never been activated on my iphone - and it never will be.

[kingu]

To activate Google Now, I have to be on the home screen, to activate Cortana, I actually have to be in the Cortana app...

I guess this is one of those ‘if everything was perfect’ scenarios. A cool trick, that’s about it.

[Swordmaker]

As reported by Wired, a French Security firm discovers that an obscure radio transmitting technique can use the headphone/microphone cable of a mobile device of iPhones/iPads/Android devices (and probably Cortana capable Windows devices) to receive surreptitious radio signals, that will be interpreted as audio commands for Siri, Google Now, etc., to control commands for the device to do malicious things on the device including navigate to a malicious website, turn on the phone and dial a number to listen in on conversations in the area, hear voice mail, etc. This is a really low possibility as the cables could not be used for any other purpose, such as listening to music, while this exploit takes place, as the signal strength will be very low. — PING!

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[tophat9000]

a wire will act like an antenna that's hardly anything new...that the basics of radio when it was invented... a modulated electromagnetic waves crossing through a wire induce a signal ...electronics 101

hell the first time heard Rush Limbaugh was because of something like this.....

Back in late 80’s i use to live a few miles from the KFI radio tower... that big 50000 watt transmitter...

And my apartment had so so phone lines...

The KFI signals was picked up on my phone lines and tripped my answering machine ...it taped 2 hours of Rush Limbaugh show.

That was that first time I heard him..taped on my phone answering machine

[Red Badger]

Sounds Siri-ous.................

[ex91B10]

Anyone remember "Captain Crunch"?

[higgmeister]

I have never used my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with a headset/mic cord to control my phone. The whole idea irritates me to think of it.

It is interesting though, but wouldn't someone notice if a hacker was close enough to pull this off?

Maybe if the hacker was on a bus with the victim a seats away. I isn't really practical because the hacker might wait all day to find someone with a mic plugged in but not using the device.

[TXnMA]

LOL!!

This old radio "Ham" observes that, even inside a shielded "faraday cage". they had to use a big, klunky, directional "yagi" beam antenna to focus in and couple enough RF into the mic lead to make the trick work. (And that was from just a couple of feet away).

I can just hear the "spy" now: "Please don't move -- so I can keep my antenna pointed at your phone"... LOL!

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However, I can visualize a FedGov "snooper" van -- with plenty of RF power and the antenna hidden inside a (RF-transparent) fiberglass body...

That one is definitely not funny!