iOS 9 arrived with an upgraded Siri who seamlessly listens to and carries out the commands of the owner. As it turns out, it will also easily carry out the wishes of hackers sitting 16 feet away.
As noted by Wired, two researchers at a French government agency, ANSSI, showcased the use of radio waves to quietly relay voice commands to Siri or Google Now-enabled devices.
But there are major limitations to this and besides if Siri or Google Now is already enabled on the phone, the hack would require “a pair of headphones with a microphone plugged into its jack.”
As rightly pointed out by Wired, “Their clever hack uses those headphones’ cord as an antenna, exploiting its wire to convert surreptitious electromagnetic waves into electrical signals that appear to the phone’s operating system to be audio coming from the user’s microphone.”
In a paper written by José Lopes Esteves and Chaouki Kasmi and published by IEEE, Vincent Strubel, the director of the research group at ANSSI, said, “The sky is the limit here. Everything you can do through the voice interface you can do remotely and discreetly through electromagnetic waves.” For the full article click here
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