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Burger King's new television ad that triggers Google Home
- tinus_hn 9y agoWhile the commercial is quite awfully smug it does show an important security issue with devices that can be triggered by audio only.
- amberj 9y ago"Google Home has stopped answering to that annoying Burger King ad... was likely just a quick fix on the server side designed to block a specific waveform...Interestingly, it’s not the specific function, just the voice from the ad. Asking Home what a “Whopper sandwich” is in your own voice (like a Big Mac, but smaller) will bring up the Wikipedia entry as initially intended." Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/google-home-has-stopped-answering-to-that-annoying-burger-king-ad/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/google-home-has-stopped-an...