[wbarmy]

Maybe another reason not to be the first on your block to have the newest app?

[glorgau]

airgapping!

this is why server racks don’t (or shouldn’t) have microphones.

[2CAVTrooper]

Bkmk

[dangerdoc]

So if my dog perks his ears and my phone lights up....

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This begs the question of why on earth would you digitize the microphone at a high enough rate to faithfully record ultrasound???? Can’t you implement a low pass filter in the mic or in electronic analog? If not, it’s quite easy - as I personally learned forty five years ago - to do digitally.

Defense against this sort of attack is just too easy.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Alexa, listen carefully.

Everything I say is a lie.

I am lying.

[Neidermeyer]

Obviously a design defect , they should be limited to listening to the normal range of human voice ,, or even a reduced range like the phone system. You’d think they’d use a cheap microphone that can’t go above 3.5khz.

[z3n]

Have you noticed that when you walk into a cell store, everything is a smart phone now?

Can’t even get a device to make calls without opening yourself up to vulnerabilities. What a world we live in. Send in the <:0)

[Swordmaker]

Can ultra-high sounds invoke Siri or other voice activated services on smart devices to issue malicious commands? Chinese researcher says yes, they can. . . but what he claims, such as using Siri to download malicious apps from a website to an iPhone or iPad. Perhaps on an Android device, but not on a iOS device. — PING!

Pinging dayglored, ThunderSleeps, and ShadowAce for their ping lists.

Are Voice Activated Devices Susceptible To
High-FrequencyVoice Command Hijacking?
Ping!

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[I want the USA back]

This is not a hack. This is a “legitimate” researcher trying to get into the device. No one else had thought of it before him. Now the whole world knows, and teenagers in Romania will be building devices to break into Alexa.
Who paid the guy to do this?

[Mr. Jeeves]

[Chode]

if these phoned are sooo damn smart, why can't they identify their owners voice and only respond to it?