Amazon Admits Hackers Could Turn Echo Speakers Into Listening Devices
Shortly after, Amazon confirmed that Alexa was indeed laughing out of the blue, and promptly fixed whatever glitch was plaguing the matrix at the time.
Yet while bizarre and sinister, the incidents were largely innocuous.
That however was not the case with the latest bug uncovered in Amazon's Echo which allowed hackers to listen in to the speaker, a privilege which until recently, most speculated was only granted to Amazon… and the NSA of course.
https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-27/amazon-admits-hackers-could-turn-echo-speakers-listening-devices