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Hackers Can Silently Control Siri from 16 Feet Away

• flippyhead 11y ago
  This is exactly the kind of thing they would have put in old hacker movies like Sneakers that I'd always laugh at. I live in the future.
  • 1wayaroundor2 11y ago
    and my 1st thought was about _the_ "strategic interface for remote interactions" cough! move along citizen, nothing to see here...
• DINKDINK 11y ago
  TL;DR French security researchers able to trigger Google Now / Siri from 5m way using headphones as antenna, send txts, make calls.
• Terr_ 11y ago
  At first I thought they were using some sort of ultrasonic highly-directional speaker, but I suppose inducing currents inside the mic+headphone wire is arguably even sneakier.