Re:Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]
by ekimekim on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:29PM
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It's more like having an unauthenticated API open to the network, where in this case the network is sound waves in your local space. The idea that anyone is using voice for priveliged operations ("buy X", change my calendar, etc) is horrifying to me.
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Re:Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]
by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:55PM
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> anyone is using voice for priveliged operations
I remember when people started broadcasting to Siri for people who had their headphones plugged in.
Re:Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]
by pavel_lishin on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:58PM
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I'm always startled to find out that people with very young kids have these in their house. Presumably there's some way from preventing a 3 year old from running up a $50k bill?
Re:Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]
by javagram on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:06PM
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Alexa purchasing can be configured with a voice PIN.
I believe purchasing by voice does have to be enabled initially through the app as well. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Edit: I looked in my Alexa app and there is also a voice recognition option, so you can use it to only allow purchasing via recognized voice patterns and require a PIN for anything else.