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2016
Text 6 to answer questions 20 to 23.
1 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 […] It
4 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
7 responses.
But US security researcher Matt Jakubowski
discovered that
when connected to Wi-Fi the doll was
10 vulnerable to hacking, allowing him easy access to
the
doll’s system information, account information, stored audio
files and direct access to the microphone.
13
Jakubowski told NBC: “You can take that information
and
find out a person’s house or business. It’s just a matter
of time until we are
able to replace their servers with ours
16 and have her say anything we want.” Once
Jakubowski took
control of where the data was sent the snooping
possibilities
were apparent. The doll only listens in on a
conversation
19 when a button is pressed and the recorded audio is
encrypted before being sent over the internet, but once a
hacker has control of the doll the privacy features could be
22 overridden.
It was the ease with which the doll was compromised
that was most concerning. The information stored by the
25
doll could allow hackers to take over a home Wi-Fi network
and from there
gain access to other internet-connected
devices, steal personal information
and cause other
28 problems for the owners, potentially without their
knowledge.
This isn’t the
first time that Hello Barbie has been
31 placed under the privacy spotlight. On its
release in March
privacy campaigners warned that a child’s intimate
conversations with their doll were being recorded and
34
analysed and that it should not go on sale.
With a
Hello Barbie in the hands of a child and carried
everywhere they and their
parents go, it could be the
37 ultimate in audio surveillance device for miscreant
hackers.
ToyTalk and Mattel, the manufacturers of Hello
39 Barbie, did not respond to requests for comment.
Internet:
< http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/26/
hackers-can-hijack-wi-fi-hello-barbie-to-spy-on-your-children >.
Access: 26 dez. 2015, adapted.
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