Amazon
Echo's voice assistant can
easily be
'hijacked' by
your radio or TV
The
Amazon Echo , our
favorite gadget of 2015 , has quickly become the smart home hub that everyone is gushing over. With
voice commands, the ability to play music from the cloud, fast weather and sports scores, and control of
your smart home devices — all done in a fast, intuitive way — it feels like something straight out of
Star Trek .
Because the Echo is always listening for commands, users have started discovering that it can be "hijacked" whenever it hears it's activation phrase "Alexa," even if it's **t from a person that's actually in the room.
Several listeners of the NPR-produced
Listen Up radio show
wrote to its host Rachel Martin to inform her that a segment discussing the Echo had triggered their own Echo devices.
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