Guess Who's Listening Now? Just About Anyone, on Your Devices
I remember being at a friend's house recently and she said, "Alexa, play 'Uh Oh,'" and it (she?) did, and I thought, hmm, I wonder who else is listening in? Turns out your devices are. " We have become accustomed to carrying our mobile phones and tablet devices everywhere we go," says newswise.com. The mobile phone has essentially become an extension of our bodies, helping us to communicate, make payments and socialize. Unfortunately, the web site goes on, the smart devices of today are equipped with many different types of sensors that may be listening in on our conversations. The heat gets turned on in our homes by a computer. Cameras scan our property. Our billing is often handled electronically. Don't you think the people behind these machines are listening, and recording our lives, too? “In reality, we have threats from two directions — malicious apps that hijack the phone sensors to spy on us, and otherwise benign apps secretly...