Nest - someone watching you through your camera.
Feb 1, 2019
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https://chicago.cbslocal.com/video/4019838-family-was-watched-through-nest-security-cameras/
Everyone knows that Alexa and hello google is spying on you all the time but this is shocking to me.
Family Was Watched Through Nest Security Cameras
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This issue is with all IoT devices. If I hack your wifi I can do crazy things.
Nest should require stronger passwords but at the end of the day a system is as secure as it's weakest link.
1. This is how Alexa is TODAY, as per your knowledge. The next version or the next update, who knows?
2. A shabby or disgruntled employee has not left some vulnerability in the code that can make it snoop on people.
3. A layperson not following the best practices when it comes to security. This could cause someone to spy on people.
4. A third party app or skill or whatever hacking into Alexa using some vulnerability.
2. Obviously I have not audited all the code myself. My comment was not a commitment that no vulnerability could exist, but a statement that the general meme that Alexa is spying on you or "listening" all the time beyond the wakeword running on a circular buffer is just misleading and wrong.
3. I don't see how this is possible.
4. The API for skills is too limited to imagine that being likely. You can look it up yourself. Very different from, say, Android apps or iOS apps which actually run on device themselves and have a very rich, expressive API with a huge number of capabilities.
You know what, they want you guns to be "smart guns". Maybe later they'd require your guns to be connected to internet as well.