Yeah, it's a year old but apparently veiled speakers can issue barely recognizeable commands to your voice-activated phone, such as "go into airplane mode".
Think about this in terms of taking video of political events/demonstrations or abuses of power, where your ability to upload in real time to a safe backup can be crippled, your phone seized and "cleaned".
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I was going to make an separate post, but this might suffice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/the-demon-voice-that-can-talk-to-your-smartphone/513743/
Yeah, it's a year old but apparently veiled speakers can issue barely recognizeable commands to your voice-activated phone, such as "go into airplane mode".
Think about this in terms of taking video of political events/demonstrations or abuses of power, where your ability to upload in real time to a safe backup can be crippled, your phone seized and "cleaned".