South Park talks to Alexa

[Brian Bartholomew]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/south-park-premiere-messes-viewers-amazon-alexa-google-home-1039035

Both Alexa and Google Home were featured in "White People
Renovating Houses," and the cartoon characters yelling commands
at their cartoon models for 30 minutes played havoc on some
actual Alexa and Home models.

The "S" in "IOT" stands for "Security".

Now, imagine a radio station announcer saying:

"And now for the hot new hit from the band Tesla, 'Emergency Stop'"

Brian

[Allen Rout]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:27 AM, 'Brian Bartholomew'

> Now, imagine a radio station announcer saying:
>
> "And now for the hot new hit from the band Tesla, 'Emergency Stop'"
>

There have already been several broadcast voice control snafus.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/7/14200210/amazon-alexa-tech-news-anchor-order-dollhouse


Even more fun: folks have calculated adverserial samples which, though
beyond our hearing, activate Alexa for a given command. So Order
66 will come out of our hearing entirely.


- Allen S. Rout

[Christopher Hoffman]

I was reading an article about that, researchers were able to create audio which the main signal is much higher than the 20kHz humans can hear, but will create overtones which the device can receive, using it to do perform voice commands. Interesting stuff.

That South Park episode is hilarious though. I, for one, love my Google Home, and I welcomingly embrace my Google Overlords.

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[Kamin Miller]

I went to a conference in San Francisco in May, and one of the speakers they had there was Brian Krebs from Krebs On Security.  He talked about how after he broke some large amounts of story about dark web sales of personal information, he started receiving unsolicited orders of drugs and guns, and had to perform some kind of trickery to hide the address of the home he had to move to.  He said he requires all guests to fully power off their mobile devices at the meeting point before even taking them to his place.  He also says that he will never own a smart home type device.

It was an hour long talk, about how we need to be more security conscious, and stop trusting these smart services from these providers.  Then when the talk was over, the CEO of the conference host asked him to draw raffle tickets for the attendees.  

The prize? A Google Home.  The look of pure hate on his face is something I will probably never forget.

-Kamin 

On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 9:00:32 PM UTC-4, Christopher Hoffman wrote:

I was reading an article about that, researchers were able to create audio which the main signal is much higher than the 20kHz humans can hear, but will create overtones which the device can receive, using it to do perform voice commands. Interesting stuff.

That South Park episode is hilarious though. I, for one, love my Google Home, and I welcomingly embrace my Google Overlords.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Allen Rout <allen...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:27 AM, 'Brian Bartholomew'

> Now, imagine a radio station announcer saying:
>
>         "And now for the hot new hit from the band Tesla, 'Emergency Stop'"
>

There have already been several broadcast voice control snafus.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/7/14200210/amazon-alexa-tech-news-anchor-order-dollhouse


Even more fun: folks have calculated adverserial samples which, though
beyond our hearing, activate Alexa for a given command.     So Order
66 will come out of our hearing entirely.


- Allen S. Rout

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