Learning From Alexa’s Mistakes

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1 min readJun 20, 2018

by Ben Dickson, June 20, 2018, PCMag

“An Amazon Echo device recently recorded the private conversation of a user and sent it to one of their contacts without their knowledge and consent. This (again) raises concerns about the security and privacy of smart speakers. As later became evident, though, Alexa’s weird behavior was not part of a sinister espionage plot — rather, it was caused by a series of linked failures attributed to the way the smart speaker works.”

Read the full story and Tonkean Co-Founder and CEO’s Sagi Eliyahu’s comments at PCMag.

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