Compromized Electronics listening to you.
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Hi, this is Bill Sikkens, host of User
Friendly
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:2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer
with this week's Tech Wednesday.
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:We've been talking recently
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:on the show about devices that track you
and sell your data, that type of thing.
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:And from one standpoint, we’ve gone
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:over some common-sense things
you can do to be able to minimize that.
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:But what happens when the device itself
is compromised?
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:Hundreds of millions of audio devices
need a patch to prevent wireless hacking
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:and tracking
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:from one major company
that we're going to talk
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:about this Saturday here on user friendly
and what you need to do
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:to see if your devices are secure
or as secure as they can be.
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:Pretty much everything
we have in our house, from our phones
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:to our smart speakers to a number of other
things can listen to what we're saying.
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:Our monitoring for keywords
to give answers to questions.
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:That type of a thing.
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:A lot of this is very benign
and designed to help you.
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:But there is a side of this,
especially when hackers get involved
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:that can compromise
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:that and basically place
an eavesdropping microphone in your home.
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:Joining us this Saturday on User Friendly
2.0 is we
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:talk about this and talk about how you can
check out what's listening to you.
