Author: Craig Lloyd / Source: howtogeek.com
Amazon recently added the ability for users to unlock their smart lock-equipped doors using Alexa. This is a welcome feature, but it does raise some concerns about intruders yelling through windows to tell Alexa to unlock your door. Is this a concern you should worry about, though?
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For starters, the unlock feature for Alexa includes an extra little security measure. When you tell Alexa to unlock a door, you also have to say a four-digit voice code out loud to confirm. So even if an intruder was able to successfully yell through a window at Alexa, they’d need that unique code to actually bypass your lock.
But, I wanted to see if it was possible for Alexa to hear me through windows in the first place. I set up an Echo near my glass patio door and got to work.
As you can see in the photo above, I set the Echo near the patio door, but not right next to it—realistically, in most houses, the Echo won’t be directly in front of a window, but rather off to the side somewhere.
I stepped outside, closed the patio door, and started yelling “Alexa” so many…
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