Hackers find exploitable vulnerabilities in Amazon Echo, turn one into a listening device

We refer to ours *shudders* as “the speaker” when talking about what a pain-in-the-ass it is to avoid activating it. We also called it “The Speaker” because it freaked my 3yo daughter out that we had brought something into the house that listened and responded. It didn’t work, she still won’t talk to it. She’s the smartest one in the house. Of course, we have a hard time getting its “attention” but no matter what my daughter says, it interprets it as “Alexa.” Makes me think a big part of their business model was having 3yos “accidentally” order things online.

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