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Wednesday, December 19, 2018
In June 2018, security researchers found that Google's smart speaker and home assistant, Google Home, and its Chromecast streaming device could be made to leak highly accurate location information because they failed to require authentication from other machines on their local network. The attack worked by requesting a list of nearby wireless networks from the Google device and sending that list on to Google's geolocation lookup service, whose map of wireless network names around the world is…