Nov. 4, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO — Since voice-controlled digital assistants were introduced a few years ago, security experts have fretted that systems like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa were a privacy threat and could be easily hacked.
But the risk presented by a cleverly pointed light was probably not on anyone’s radar.
Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said Monday that they had found a way to take over Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri devices from hundreds of feet away by shining laser pointers, and even flashlights, at the devices’ microphones.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/technology/digital-assistant-laser-hack.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_191105?campaign_id=2&instance_id=13527&segment_id=18515&user_id=52ecbe4226ec54ee7c26eeb4699de4cc®i_id=22034601105