Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy

Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by falcolas on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:05PM (#18905450)

The entire top surface of the Google Home is a button (capacitive). Those kinds of sensors are just as susceptible to physical defects as mechanical buttons.

As a side note, whataboutism adds nothing of value to this discussion about the Google Home and Amazon Echo.

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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by bduerst on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:13PM (#18905516)

And the capacitive button doesn't trigger the listening hardware. Splitting hairs over the hardware specifications isn't proof that the bug is still a problem.

Also, talking about your contradictory behavior with your smartphone isn't whataboutism, unless you want to avoid addressing your hypocrisy, because smart phones are susceptible to the same blanket fears you have with homes/alexa. To critique only the latter, and not the former (which you use daily), is not fair.

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Re:Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protec... by falcolas on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:55PM (#18905905)

> And the capacitive button doesn't trigger the listening hardware.

Per Google's own site: "Long press to trigger the Google Assistant."

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