Expert Comment

The Telegraph: Amazon Echo can be used to eavesdrop

By MWR, 1 August 2017

The Echo speaker can be turned into a "wiretap" that sends all recordings to a hacker's computer in a flaw that will confirm fears about the "always on" device.

"Someone could use [the hack] to install malicious software on the device and turn it into a wiretap without the person who owns the Echo knowing," said Mark Barnes, one of the MWR security consultants who discovered the problem.

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