Amazon Alexa Can Now Unlock Your Doors

Last September, Marcus, a 31-year-old resident of Springfield, Missouri, discovered a flaw with Apple's HomeKit, the iPhone maker's program for hooking up smart home gadgets in iOS. Marcus had outfitted his entire house with an array of HomeKit-approved lights, thermostats and door lock. The setup was all controllable with an iPad sitting in his living room that he could talk to using Apple's voice assistant, Siri. Everything was going great until one Friday morning in September, his neighbor walked up to his front door right in front of him and yelled, "Hey Siri, unlock the front door," and surprise, surprise: the door unlocked. Marcus was enjoying life with the smart lock, which was made by San Francisco-based startup August Home, but found the incident unsettling and took the device off his door.