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Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

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Re: Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

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vishing is defined as using social engineering with the intention to get access to the user's vi session. The article is obviously using the term incorrectly.

I'm only now just wondering why (apparently - only looked at the first few search results) there isn't a vish shell....

Unlike EMACS, (neo)vi(m) is a text editor, not an OS.

Re: Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

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The Google Home mini and Google Home Max have physical sliding mic mute toggles. The original Google Home has a physical momentary mic mute switch (click to disable, click to enable). The Amazon Echo also has a similar mic mute switch.

That's not a physical slide disable. As long as it is software that does the work it can be undone in software.

I don't see that as any sort of a solution. How can a physical switch authenticate itself?

Re: Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

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TIL "vishing" is a word. If like me you were wondering what it meant: "Vishing is the telephone equivalent of phishing. It is described as the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft."

vishing is defined as using social engineering with the intention to get access to the user's vi session. The article is obviously using the term incorrectly.

This battle technique was perfected by the old Norse Vi Kings.

Re: Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

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That's not a physical slide disable. As long as it is software that does the work it can be undone in software.

I don't see that as any sort of a solution. How can a physical switch authenticate itself?

That's the whole point: it doesn't have to. The user knows the state it is in because it is a physical switch. In the 'off' position there is absolutely nothing that mere software could do to move it to the 'on' position.
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