What a SHAME

Jack Hyland, Conrad Schneggenburger, Nick Lim, Jake Ruud, Nate Mathews, Matthew Wright · 2021

It is estimated that by the year 2024, the total number of systems equipped with voice assistant software will exceed 8.4 billion devices globally. While these devices provide convenience to consumers, they suffer from a myriad of security issues. This paper highlights the serious privacy threats exposed by information leakage in a smart assistant's encrypted network traffic metadata. To investigate this issue, we have collected a new dataset composed of dynamic and static commands posed to an Amazon Echo Dot using data collection and cleaning scripts we developed.

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