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"Alexa" also responds to her own commercials. [0] [1] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/3oxi7b/commerci... [1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/people-are-complaining-that...
Interestingly, the same thing happened about 2 years ago with the Xbox One: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/06/13/kinect_vo...
The end result was that the player would do something obnoxious, and somebody would ask them to stop, but of course this necessitates saying their gamer tag. So you'd get audio clips of people saying stuff like "Oh my god, xboxturnoff is so freaking - WAIT NO CANCEL CANCEL XBOX TURN ON".
It was pretty good stuff.
Wow, this is a new DDOS attack vector. Get an ad on broadcast radio saying stuff like "alexa, order more milk", or "okay google, send a text to xxxxx".
Wow, this is a new DDOS attack vector. Get an ad on broadcast radio saying stuff like "alexa, order more milk", or "okay google, send a text to xxxxx".
Toyota ran an anti-distracted driving radio ad where they did this. The ad narrator says "Hey Siri, please turn airplane mode on." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZBVTMrgFA
> The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive—you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.
Interestingly, the same thing happened about 2 years ago with the Xbox One: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/06/13/kinect_vo...
At one point, I saw a video on youtube where somebody set their gamer tag on xboxlive to the phrase "Xboxturnoff", and then went around griefing players in games like Halo, where voice chat is active. The end result was that the player would do something obnoxious, and somebody would ask them to stop, but of course this necessitates saying their gamer tag. So you'd get audio clips of people saying stuff like "Oh my g…