Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant. Inside university labs, the researchers have been able to secretly activate the artificial intelligence systems on smartphones and smart speakers, making them dial phone numbers or open websites. In the wrong hands, the technology could be used to unlock doors, wire money or buy stuff online — simply with music playing over the radio.
Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant are the two way telescreen from George Orwell’s “1984.” Their computers (and maybe the NSA or GCHQ) are continually monitoring your every word, and they can even hear you in the next room.
And we actually pay them for the privilege of spying on us. Stop!
Caveat emptor has never been truer than now.
I have an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo Dot.
I love Apple. Amazon is doublePlusGood ! The $20 increase in Prime is great !
I don’t understand how people can think they might do something bad ?
( ! em pleH ! em pleH ! deppart m’I ! gnihtyreve wonk\ees yehT)
Or, for that matter, used to program a self-driving car to drive the wrong way up a one-way street or override the brakes and floor the acceleration so as to drive the car into a wall at 250kph, cleanly removing from circulation anybody daft enough to talk about the Deep State or the Muslim problem along with his entire family, no human saboteur necessary.
The only reason I have a ‘smart’ phone is my employer forces me have one. I’d get rid of it if I could.
I have an Apple iPhone simply because so many of my clients use the platform to communicate with me … virtually all messaging … no more email. But they get frustrated, because I keep my phone in a drawer in the other room. I’m not tethered to the thing … and I will NEVER have an Alexa or any other spy device that refers to Jesus Christ as a fictional character.
The Muslim prophet Muhammad may have been a fictional character.(yeah it’s hard to believe that a fiction can do so much harm)
But contemporary historians who were not Christians assure us that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person, still while not agreeing that He was the Messiah. This should not be a shocking revelation. But these hisorians did agree that He did exist and was a real historic person.
Not so with Muhammad and others who purportedly started religions.(this is where Muslims killing non-believers works against them)
…>What?! You don’t believe Muhammad is Allah’s only true Prophet? I KEEEL YOU!!!<…
yeah, obviously short sighted and counter productive
With such omniscience, someone is going to play god, or think they can.
Jeffery Deever wrote a good mystery novel about that just last year or 2016. A killer hacking into smart appliances etc.
they musta consulted with Willy Clinton on the meaning of the word ‘smart’.
migawd, if THIS doesnt constitute ‘sign of the times’ wtf does?