HACKING Siri, Alexa and Google Home in seconds!

Am I reading it right? Can I really hack into anyone's Siri or Alexa??

How is that even possible?

Exactly! I'm gonna show now how to hack anyone's Siri or Alexa in seconds.

But before go any further, you need to understand some principles working behind it.

When sound hits an object it causes that

object to vibrate the motion of this vibration creates a 

subtle visual signal that's usually invisible to the 

naked eye in our work we show how using only a video of 

the object and a suitable processing algorithm 

we can extract these minute vibrations and 

partially recover the sounds that produce them letting us 

turn everyday visible objects into visual microphones in 

the silent high-speed video.

So as you see in the first experiment shown in the video 

the leaves of a potted plant was

recorded while a nearby loudspeaker  played the notes to 

mary had a little lamb' even when they play the 

video in slow motion, the vibrations caused by the music 

are so subtle that they move the plant's leaves by 

less than a hundredth of a pixel making the plant appear 

still to the naked eye but by combining and filtering 

all of the tiny motion happening across the image that you 

see they are able to recover the sound.

So what's happening here ? 

(If  you dont want to go down scientific lane, you can skip 

this part. ) 

I'll try to be as layman as possible about this,

When sound hits an object it causes that 

object to vibrate.

The motion of this vibration creates a subtle visual 

signal that's usually invisible to the naked eye.

Using only a video of the object and a suitable processing 

algorithm we can extract those minute vibrations 

and partially recover the sounds that produce them letting 

us turn everyday visible objects into visual

microphones in the silent high-speed video.

Let's say we reverse the Process now, vice-versa? 

That possible ? 

HECK YEAH! It's completely possible.

Another video to experiment this will give us a clear 

clue to how to hack Siri, Alexa or Google Home 

reversing the underlying principles we just learned.

So it seems you have to convert command to light. Can be done easily, right?.

Apparently immense microphones like the 

ones that are used on home assistance are all apparently 

susceptible to being hacked.

The microphone perceives it as sound so basically just 

imagine you've got

waves at different amplitudes like sound and and that's 

how it does.

Yeah what's fun about this is it works through glass and 

it is viable although

you would have to think about you would  have to figure 

out the proper frequency,

modulations to figure out so you know appropriate code 

to unlock your doors. It's simulating a voice command 

but you can't hear it because where is it transmitting 

sound, in fact, it's using the laser as a sound.

How's it done?

You pick certain frequency modulations for the light and 

point it to the device

which does not hear like we do it right now but it gives it

the same reaction as a

person saying a command and you've got

to think that the MEMS microphone the

way these work is something it detects a

'wave' so it's just when I say something

it doesn't know I'm talking, it just

knows that whatever waves hitting it, it has to respond to it..

Sounds Easy Peezy! Right?

But wait!!!

So you're saying i can really hack into my friends Google Home, Siri or Alexa ??..

is it even Pragmatic to think about? 


If you are from a science background and to be precise an

electrical engineer, it wouldn't be much a trouble for

you.

I would say, to some extent, yes! You would pull this off without scratching your head, not more than once or twice.

But if not, and If you really want to do this,

you need to befriend some elctrical guy right now and show 

him the next video.

And you are done!!!

Just so you know, there are already light walkie talkies in the market which uses the same technology, using light for transmission and then converting it to sound at the receivers end.

You might not have noticed it yet, but the technology was also been found advertently in the
the 2008 breathtaking movie eagle eye, had the AI Convert light to sound by watching the vibration of a glass.

If that's too old for you, let me show a recent example of this technology from the Amazon Web Series JACK RYAN



Just follow this clear instructions and you're good to go ;)