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I believe there are several dangers, some more likely than others. 1. If you've enabled voice verification on a service, like your bank account, recordings of
by davidajackson 7y ago
I believe there are several dangers, some more likely than others.
1. If you've enabled voice verification on a service, like your bank account, recordings of your voice or AI generated recordings (based on you saying Hello, Yes, No, etc.) could be used to attempt to access those records. Even if you don't hear a lot about that today, I believe it's coming as a threat vector and will be more frequent.
2. I have a good friend whose family was scammed out of several thousand by one of those "Your child has been kidnapped" type scams. Allowing people who aren't authorized to call you enables these types of interactions. What happens further down the line when AIs are able to imitate the voices of your loved ones?
Some would see these comments as over-reacting which I totally understand. I'm just pointing out that there are potential threats, and not assigning any probabilities to them.
I do run a spam blocking app called CallStop that can try, it might solve your problem:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id1455892856 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589...
It requires unknown callers to send you a whitelist request or enter a PIN to call you.
- _bxg1 7y agoThey're points worth making, but not really relevant. All I want to know is, if I answer a call and listen, and don't say anything, is there a chance my device could be compromised?
- davidajackson 7y agoVery unlikely. If you're not worried about social engineering then I don't think you should worry about it. Only thing is that sometimes if you do pick up you can be more likely to get those calls, since they know you pick up.
- bloodorange 7y agoIf you were thoroughly paranoid, you could make a case that the background noise might, at times, give hints enough for a clever man to roughly figure out where you are.
- davidajackson 7y agoYes. Interesting but tangential: apparently gait can be used to identify a person instead of facial recognition https://apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a https://apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a