Google Accessory Development Kit: Another surprise from Google I / O

The surprises are not finished by the Google I / O 2012 and the last day of conferences, meetings and presentations, Google has unveiled the new  Google Accessory Development Kit , a tool capable of concentrating in a unique, special and really cool, everything the need to appease developers who want to experiment with Android. In practice, Google introduced a "super alarm clock".

What you see pictured in the photo is actually an alarm clock, but for the happiness of the most imaginative developers, may be something much more thanks to a huge number of sensors and the ability to interface with Android and be managed remotely. The Google Accessory Development Kit opens fully with magnets that allow access to internal components in an instant. We find accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope and many other sensors which can be exploited depending on your imagination and skills.

An object is certainly not for all that you see in the video below. The worthy end of three days devoted primarily to developers. by

Apple accused of spying for the users using the Siri

The publication Technology Review warns smartphone users iPhone 4S that Siri record voice commands and sends the collected data on the servers of Apple, said SecurityLab.

 

According to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Voice Assistant to Apple, has the function of recording the user's voice and speech samples collected by it, is as unique as fingerprints, can be an excellent target for various attacks. On them you can easily identify any user's iPhone 4S.

Researchers believe that a smartphone should pass to Apple only "features of speech, not the speech itself." Despite the fact that this decision will create an additional burden on the processor and the battery device, it should not affect the quality of the recording. Only by refusing access to the full voice signal, the company will be able to avoid charges of unauthorized collection of confidential data.

Apple, in turn, states that does not collect data about their users and servers that corporations do not store the names, photos or fingerprints of the owners of "apple" gadgets.

However, according to Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller, Siri writes it really user, but only if you pronounce a specific sentence, "What are the weather." This entry is used only for testing assistant to understand and recognize the Siri requests.

With regard to the collection of samples to vote, Mueller said that Apple is committed to protecting the security of user data, and Siri Assistant is not able to collect samples of speech, let alone send them via the Internet in an unencrypted form on the company's servers.

According to representatives of Apple, Siri actually gains access to the contact list the user specifies its location and scans the list of audio and videos, but this is done solely in order to be able to respond to requests for the owner of the device as much as possible and faster.