Could get pretty sci-fi with this. Repeatedly send "Hey Siri" with a custom message in a crowded area. Watch people shake heads whenever they check their phones.
Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
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#82This is MUCH bigger deal than most understand. This will cost less than $10 to build and their is no hardware solution on phones or Alexia. Phreaking is back.
This has nothing to do with phreaking. Phreaking is about hacking the phone network, not covert use of the built-in features of a network-enabled device.
Re: Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, those parts are easily available on Aliexpress in droves. Imagine this in the crowded subway. "hey siri" "show me pictures of CENSORED " "send the first picture to mom" "yes, send it" :S
I’m pretty sure that Hey Siri is keyed to the users voice to some extent, so Siri should be safe. Not sure about Google, Cortana, Alexa etc.
You are correct that Apple claims that the opening "Hey, Siri" is trying to match against your voice specifically: https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/11/apple-addresses-privacy-qu...
Re: Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, those parts are easily available on Aliexpress in droves. Imagine this in the crowded subway. "hey siri" "show me pictures of CENSORED " "send the first picture to mom" "yes, send it" :S
How about forwarding password reset emails?
"Siri, forward my Ashley Madison password email to my wife"
Re: Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, those parts are easily available on Aliexpress in droves. Imagine this in the crowded subway. "hey siri" "show me pictures of CENSORED " "send the first picture to mom" "yes, send it" :S
I’m pretty sure that Hey Siri is keyed to the users voice to some extent, so Siri should be safe. Not sure about Google, Cortana, Alexa etc.
Cortana has that as an option in Settings, but it's not on by default.
Re: Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
#86Re: Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
#87This is MUCH bigger deal than most understand. This will cost less than $10 to build and their is no hardware solution on phones or Alexia. Phreaking is back.
This has nothing to do with phreaking. Phreaking is about hacking the phone network, not covert use of the built-in features of a network-enabled device.
well Phreaking seemed to me to be phone based.