Burger King Trolled Customers to Perfectly Explain Net Neutrality
In a new ad spot, the fast food chain uses Whoppers to teach customers about net neutrality. Continue reading Burger King Trolled Customers to Perfectly Explain Net Neutrality
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Smashing Security #017: Data breaches, zero day exploits, and toenail clippings
Hotel malware has been stealing guests’ payment card details… again, should businesses relay delay rolling out vulnerability patches, and Burger King’s Whopper TV ad campaign tries to take advantage of viewers’ Google Home devices with predictable re… Continue reading Smashing Security #017: Data breaches, zero day exploits, and toenail clippings
Burger King triggers Google Home devices with TV ad
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Burger King Scores Free Advertising from Google Home with a Whopper of a Hack
Advertisers are always trying to stuff more content into a 15 or 30 second TV spot. Burger King seems to have pulled it off with a series of ads that take advantage of the Google Home device sitting in many viewers living rooms. It works like this: The friendly Burger King employee ends the ad by saying “Ok Google, what is the Whopper burger?” Google home then springs into action reading the product description from Burger King’s Wikipedia page.
Trolls across the internet jumped into the fray. The Whopper’s ingredient list soon included such items as toenail clippings, rat, cyanide, …read more
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