NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- A National Public Radio show recently hacked the Amazon Echo units of listeners across the country, giving them false commands, like reseting their home thermostats.
NPR's Weekend Edition ran a segment earlier this month about the voice-activated assistant that can give users the news, weather and sports and control lights and thermostats. To activate the unit, simply say "Alexa." Some listeners whose Echo units were too close to their radios that day were surprised to find out how the voices on the program were setting off the Echo and wrote to the producers of the show telling them what had happened.