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News Amazon Echo turned into covert microphone

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    Amazon's Echo smart speaker can be hacked to send the audio stream of everything it hears to an attacker, says a researcher.

    Mark Barnes said the attack on some versions of the Echo let him do almost anything he wanted to it.

    Mr Barnes managed to enter the device's software innards via connections found on its base.

    He said taking over the device was "trivial" once an attacker had access to an Echo.
    The security researcher acknowledged that the requirement to get physical access to the device to carry out the attack was a "major limitation".

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