Showing posts with label Siri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Siri. Show all posts

Friday, October 21, 2011

Doctor, is it Siri-ous?

Last week the web was full of reports of a "security hole" in Siri, Apple's new voice control mechanism for the iPhone. ZDNet went so far as to headline "Siri not so serious about security".

So what's the "security hole"? The default iPhone configuration is such that Siri is active even when the iPhone is locked with a passcode. This means that a person with access to your supposedly secure locked iPhone can, for example, send emails from your phone using Siri. It's not difficult to understand the kind of attacks that this would allow someone impersonating you, not to mention the prank potential.