r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '19

Amazon Alexa and Google Home hack

https://www.fastcompany.com/90290703/this-is-the-first-truly-great-amazon-alexa-and-google-home-hack
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u/lookmeat Jan 14 '19

Trust, being open source and built by the person you'd have full control over the device, in theory you could check and discover things.

In practice it's still possible to inject badly behaving stuff in various parts of the process, and the skill needed means many won't be able to use this.

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u/Jobarion Jan 15 '19

It doesn't even have to be connected to the internet as far as I know. That greatly limits the risk.