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Here’s why it’s important to audit your Amazon Alexa skills (and how to do it) – The Verge
New research has revealed worrying privacy vulnerabilities in Amazon’s Alexa skill ecosystem. Here’s how to check what skills you have installed and remove them….
New research shows potential privacy vulnerabilities in Alexas skills
What are you up to, glowing orb?
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Amazon has always tried to push its Alexa-enabled smart speakers as a platform, boasting about the number of third-party skills available (more than 100,000 in the most recent count). In our experience, the majority of these skills are useless gimmicks; one-note jokes you install and forget about. But it turns out they might pose a privacy threat, too.
The first…
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