Siri and other smartphone digital assistants may do your bidding — but they may do a hijacker’s as well. That’s what two researchers discovered when they began to tinker with the effects of radio waves on smartphones. They could use the waves to issue commands to any Android or iOS phone running Google Now or Siri. The researchers first aired their findings at the Hack in Paris conference during the summer. Their presentation didn’t receive a lot of publicity at the time, but a report last week set the tech press abuzz.
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Boffins Demo Remote Control of Siri, Google Now
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 19, 2015 11:57 AMSiri and other smartphone digital assistants may do your bidding — but they may do a hijacker’s as well. That’s what two researchers discovered when they began to tinker with the effects of radio waves on smartphones. They could use the waves to issue commands to any Android or iOS phone running Google Now or Siri. The researchers first aired their findings at the Hack in Paris conference during the summer. Their presentation didn’t receive a lot of publicity at the time, but a report last week set the tech press abuzz.