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All of that sounds impressive, until you see red team pros talk about how the whole apparatus melts before the gentlest of social engineering- https://www.yout
by brianpgordon 7y ago
All of that sounds impressive, until you see red team pros talk about how the whole apparatus melts before the gentlest of social engineering-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE
I'd also be concerned with leaking of mass amounts of records at once due to a security lapse on servers where it's a bit easier for grossly inadequate protections to lurk unnoticed-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19191241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19191241
I think I've read that Google doesn't even store the original recordings, but distorts them randomly to make them unrecognizable but still intelligible by their models. That seems like a pretty reasonable way to protect people, provided they're informed and there's no link back to the original account.
- dannyw 7y agoThat cannot be the case when you can listen to a crystal clear record of every voice assistant clip you’ve made, in My Activity.
- brianpgordon 7y agoWow, thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know that was a thing. It's not even encrypted with a device key or something on my phone - I can listen to a recording my own voice streaming straight from myactivity.google.com to my desktop web browser. I guess the voice scrambling thing must have been specific to their human-supervised learning program. I expect the unaltered voice data is treated with some special care on Google's backend... but I'm still creeped out.