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Hackers can hijack Wi-Fi Hello Barbie to spy on your children
Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:17
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Security researcher warns hackers could steal personal information and turn the microphone of the doll into a surveillance device
Mattel’s latest Wi-Fi enabled Barbie doll can easily be hacked to turn it into a surveillance device for spying on children and listening into conversations without the owner’s knowledge.
The Hello Barbie doll is billed as the world’s first “interactive doll” capable of listening to a child and responding via voice, in a similar way to Apple’s Siri, Google’s Now and Microsoft’s Cortana.
It connects to the internet via Wi-Fi and has a microphone to record children and send that information off to third-parties for processing before responding with natural language responses …. http://www.theguardian.com
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