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Re:Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands by shawn on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:32PM (#17042228)
"Inaudible" doesn't necessarily mean a range outside of human hearing.

For example you could embed a 6kHz tone in a way that's inaudible to humans due to the other frequencies in the waveform.

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Re:Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands by sideshowb on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:59PM (#17042436)
And promptly lose it to lossy compression
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