Meet Law Enforcement’s New Friend — Alexa

I don’t use Cortona or Alexa, as I like to type things. I also find it rather strange when a computer tries to analyse my queries, and think that the technology is a long way off understanding what I say.

Like it or not Alexa is listening to you all the time and records a history of events (as you can see on the screen shot on the left-hand side).

Increasing, though, these types of devices are being in investigations, as they give pointers within investigations. A recent paper at DFRWS outlined a deep analysis of the Amazon Alexa [paper]:

Within the paper, they provide a new way of integrating Cloud forensics with client forensics (companion forensics). They define the companion clients as the devices which is used to capture the responses from Alexa, such as smart devices and laptops. As part of their investigation they…