Si les systèmes de reconnaissance vocale dotés d’algorithmes d’intelligence artificielle (IA) sont supposés assister leurs utilisateurs au quotidien, ils pourraient bien se transformer en complice des pirates. Des chercheurs ont découvert comment piloter les Siri, Google Assistant/Now, Alexa et autre Cortana à l’aide d’ultrason, une fréquence inaudible pour l’oreille humaine.

MCU, SFU, Mesh – what do they really mean? We decided to take all these techniques to a spin to see what goes on on the network.

To that end, we used some simple test scripts in testRTC and handpicked a service that uses each of these techniques:

For mesh we used appear.in
For SFU we used Talky
For MCU we used Blue Jeans

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