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Hey Siri, How Come Strangers Are Listening To My Private Messages?


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Graham Cluley  Mar 12, 2015
 
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I don’t often use Siri on my iPhone, but I’ve got to admit that when I do it’s really handy.
I’ll be driving the car and thinking “Arrrghh! I forgot to put out the recycling last night. I’d better say sorry to my wife as soon as possible, as she’ll be mad at me.”
I could stop the car on the hard shoulder (which would be dangerous), I could risk waiting until I get to my destination to tell my wife (which would be dangerous), or I could press a button my iPhone and tell Siri to send her a text message (probably the least dangerous option).
“Hey Siri. Send a message to Caroline. Oops. I forgot to put out the recycling. Don’t dump me.”
Easy-peasy.
Siri whirs away, and before I know it it’s sent my missus a text message. Job done.
 
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Once again privacy at a premium, there is no privacy

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I think I see huge trolling potential. 
 
"Hey siri, tell blah the launchcodes are blah blha blah blah"
"Hey siri, I have these big nasty things, should I cut them off?"
 
Just knowing that someone EVENTUALLY has to listen to it.
Make them so disgusted for the lulz...
 
Also throw in some paranoia.   "Hey siri tell <underling> That we should pay off politicians to make that <bill> go through." "$100,000 should do"
 
 

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