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While the commercial is quite awfully smug it does show an important security issue with devices that can be triggered by audio only.


"Google Home has stopped answering to that annoying Burger King ad... was likely just a quick fix on the server side designed to block a specific waveform...Interestingly, it’s not the specific function, just the voice from the ad. Asking Home what a “Whopper sandwich” is in your own voice (like a Big Mac, but smaller) will bring up the Wikipedia entry as initially intended." Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/google-home-has-stopped-an...




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