What a mistake is the one made by Alexa, Amazon's assistant that, among many other things, controls the speakers that Amazon has for sale to improve the domestic of homes. As you may already know, this type of speaker, being under the Amazon layer and Amazon being the company that has made the most third-party devices compatible, with Alexa we can control almost everything within the home.
Smart speakers are timidly landing at manufacturers like Apple or Google, but at Amazon things are much more advanced. As such, more are the possible glitches that can happen as has happened on this occasion.
Apple has made errors in its systems that it has had to correct immediately and that is precisely what Amazon is doing right now. This is one of the first major mistakes that an Amazon speaker under Alexa has made. apparently, the assistant has mistakenly sent a private conversation from the owners of the house to a contact on the device's phonebook.
The mistake has been made in a Portland home in which Alexa made recordings of the couple's conversations and sent them randomly to one of the husband's contacts, specifically one of his workers. The couple found out about the problem because the employee who had received the conversation called his boss's wife to tell her to immediately unplug the speaker with Alexa because they had been hacked.
Is this precisely what Apple is working on? Will it be the strong point of HomePod security as on the iPhone? Be careful what you leave connected to the Internet in your home.
