DolphinAttack: hacking Siri, Alexa with ultrasonic commands

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.enga ... -commands/


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I’m sure this was news last year too. Slightly concerning from a “hey Siri call this premium rate number” situation but not so concerned, at least with Siri, on HA as security devices like locks require Touch ID (face ID Next week authentication.

I’m sure this was news last year too. Slightly concerning from a “hey Siri call this premium rate number” situation but not so concerned, at least with Siri, on HA as security devices like locks require Touch ID (face ID Next week authentication.

I'm not too concerned about this -- it is kind of a forced-news item. If you read the the details, the effective range was something like 6' on most devices and nearly all the assistants will confirm a command or do something on screen before actually carrying out something serious. If someone is standing outside my window using ultrasonic commands to try and do something nefarious with my assistant, they won't be standing there for long once I understand what is happening! LOL

i like the scenario much better when on the tv or radio some says "alexa shutdown the house" or "alexa buy 100 xx".
that is much more realistic and something like that already happened, though with playing music... one of the reasons why i don't want any of these in my house.

Karl

I'm not too concerned about this -- it is kind of a forced-news item. If you read the the details, the effective range was something like 6' on most devices and nearly all the assistants will confirm a command or do something on screen before actually carrying out something serious. If someone is standing outside my window using ultrasonic commands to try and do something nefarious with my assistant, they won't be standing there for long once I understand what is happening! LOL

Yeah i saw that. I suppose the technology could be refined to work over more distance, etc but i suspect before it becomes an issue Apple, et al, will add something to filter out noise on those frequencies.

i like the scenario much better when on the tv or radio some says "alexa shutdown the house" or "alexa buy 100 xx".
that is much more realistic and something like that already happened, though with playing music... one of the reasons why i don't want any of these in my house.

Karl

Roger that... until they implement accurate voiceprint authentication, I'm not putting that kind of security hole in my house. what with the tv, radio, and telephone answering machine all capable of "talking" around it I'd want to be very sure it knows who's telling it to do something before it does it.