Re:Burger King's new television ad that triggers Google Home
by tinus_hn on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:01PM
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While the commercial is quite awfully smug it does show an important security issue with devices that can be triggered by audio only.
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Re:Burger King's new television ad that triggers Google Home
by amberj on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:25PM
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"Google Home has stopped answering to that annoying Burger King ad... was likely just a quick fix on the server side designed to block a specific waveform...Interestingly, it’s not the specific function, just the voice from the ad. Asking Home what a “Whopper sandwich” is in your own voice (like a Big Mac, but smaller) will bring up the Wikipedia entry as initially intended."
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/google-home-has-stopped-an...