Posted on 01/26/2018 4:32:36 PM PST by firebrand
Amazon’s Alexa voice-controlled virtual assistant is the Chatty Cathy of the tech world, a digital darling that consumers can’t get enough of. It can tell chicken jokes, order pizza and turn off the kitchen faucet. So it’s not surprising that Alexa has made the leap from the home to the car.
But just as Alexa promises added hands-free convenience for drivers, researchers and engineers warn that it also opens new avenues for hacking, tracking and sonic attacks. Depending on how voice-activated assistants are connected, such hacks could range from annoying pranks like opening a car’s windows in the rain to dangerous attacks like remotely unlocking a house’s doors for a robbery.
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Alexa, who did you let in my house to loot it?
I still don’t understand why you would want Amazon listening to your every word.
“Loudmouth computer!”
A lot of people don’t realize it. Cell phones, credit cards, Internet, etc. Are monitored to some degree.
We are desensitized.
Alexa, where is my head?
*up your hinder*
I’m totally rejecting Alexa since it has been explicitly adjusted to be aggressively politically correct. As in explicitly hardcore feminist and gender-hostile.
Siri, where is the nearest crackhouse?
*It is believed that 27 Deep canyon Rd is a crackhouse*
Thanks for the gossip Siri
Someone ask it now if Trump colluded with the Russians.
Alexa seems to have severe mental handicaps to me.
Wikipedia with a new interface.
An interface that spys on you, and You pay for the privilege.
This is hilarious. Tripping on the deaf and demented, but still hilarious. Watch it, before Alexa tells tells them it’s not PC enough.
I would never own one of these things.
Can’t wait til someone hacks Alexa with a virus that changes its activation code name to Hillary or bitch or Hussein or something like that.
(Alexa will) respond to the question of whether it's a feminist with: "I am a feminist. As is anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society."
Siri, where is the nearest crackhouse?
*It is believed that 27 Deep canyon Rd is a crackhouse*
Surely you can’t be serious.
I am Sirious. And don’t call me Shirley.
The answer was a report on his speech at Davos, including that “America First does not mean America Alone”.
Someone did insert the guts into a Billy Bass.
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