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Some Sonos and Bose Speakers Are Being Hijacked To Play Ghostly Sounds (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Researchers at Trend Micro have found that certain models of Sonos and Bose speakers have vulnerabilities that leave them open to hijacking, as reported by Wired. The accessible speakers are being exploited by hackers that are using them to play spooky sounds, Alexa commands, and Rick Astley tracks. Only a small percentage of speakers by the two companies are actually affected, including some of the Sonos Play:1, the Sonos One, and the Bose SoundTouch. All it takes is for the speaker to be connected to a misconfigured network and a simple internet scan. Once the speaker is discovered via the scan, the API it uses to talk to apps can be utilized to tell the speakers to play any audio file hosted at a specific URL. Of all the models, between 2,500 to 5,000 Sonos devices and 400 to 500 Bose devices were found by Trend Micro to be open to audio hacking.
It's just the ghost of Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, King of Denmark, who resents the use of his name, spooking the users of those damn speakers from beyond the grave.
Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger...
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this explains why there is zero independently verifiable evidence of any russian "election hacking".
russians must have hacked ghosts.
The speakers are actually haunted by the spirits of Chinese workers in the factory they were made in, who jumped off the roof for insurance money. Strange messages end up in fortune cookies for the same reason.
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Table-ized A.I.
What's to stop some questionable entity from playing subliminal messages while you sleep? They know you are asleep because they also made^H^H^HJ^Hhacked the voice controlled home assistant device that can hear you snoring. Sure just keep buying all this internet-connected-full-of-holes-crap because everyone needs more creepy in their life.
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I read the first two sentences of the story excerpt aloud to my husband. Our kitchen-table-top Echo Dot then cheerily announced through its external speakers: "Shuffling songs by Rick Astley!" So thanks to Amazon Prime I now know that Astley recorded more than just THE song...
Somebody write a bot. Somebody write a bot. Somebody write a bot. Somebody write a bot... Can we please have Rick Astley on all Bose and Sonos IoT speakers? Actually, on everything IoT. Someone's got to put and end to this IoT nonsense and Rick Astley might just be the guy to do it :)))
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This refers to Alexa but it's close enough.
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TFS quotes "Rick Astley tracks" from TFA, so blame Wired, not Slashdot.
Calling it rickrolling would have been slightly more hip, but perhaps the Wired editors didn't want to confuse the few readers who might not know what it is.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Oops, sorry: "sed -e s/Wired/The Verge/g". That is all.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
https://xkcd.com/351/
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but does anyone use these things for serious listening? Just tonite I heard a piece of Saint Saens Symphony #3 on the radio. It was just not satisfying, so I pulled my CD of it. The organ pedal part of this piece is just not the same unless it envelops you, and I just don't see these speakers doing it.
And that is to incorporate malware protection literally at the router level. Problem is, the only devices I know that can do that are the Norton Core router and the eero mesh routers running their subscription malware protection service.
Excusable. It's not like you're confusing Dr.Dobb's with GQ.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
An appropriate acronym, don't you think?
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