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[quote=Anonymous]From the article:

Inside university labs, the researchers have been able to [b]secretly activate the artificial intelligence systems on smartphones and smart speakers[/b], making them [b]dial phone numbers[/b] or [b]open websites[/b]. In the wrong hands, the technology could be used to [b]unlock doors, wire money or buy stuff online — simply with music playing over the radio.[/b]

A group of students from University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University showed [b]in 2016 that they could hide commands in white noise played over loudspeakers[/b] and through YouTube videos [b]to get smart devices to turn on airplane mode[/b] or open a website.

This month, some of those Berkeley researchers published a research paper that went further, saying t[b]hey could embed commands directly into recordings of music or spoken text[/b]. [u]So while a human listener hears someone talking or an orchestra playing, Amazon’s Echo speaker might hear an instruction to add something to your shopping lis[/u]t.

[b]“We wanted to see if we could make it even more stealthy,”[/b] said Nicholas Carlini, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in computer security at U.C. Berkeley and one of the paper’s authors.

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Right. Because that is what we all need in our iPhones. A compromisable stealth mode.  :roll: [/quote]

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