SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri

Post by emrah » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:17 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #220

girvo wrote: post #147

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> I know people that use dictation for the majority of their text messages and email. Yeah, I'm one of them. The iOS keyboard has slowly become so bad that it's easier to dictate instead, and my partner does the same while driving via CarPlay. This is horrible to read about.

I recently saw a conversation somewhere about this, people said turning off swipe-typing made a significant difference in the keyboard experience. Haven't tested it myself as I use swipe, and have no issues. But might be worth a try.

Post by mfbx9da4 » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:37 AM UTC

nick88msn wrote: post #214

Is there actually people using siri? It’s pretty useless here in Italy. Most conversations I guess could be something like “raise the volume” “call mom” or stuff like that.

Post by devX3 » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:52 AM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #190

alphabetting wrote: post #189

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I didn't claim that. It's just the main reason for not switching according to my friends. The imessage moat in the US is pretty heavily discussed on here.

If HN were a representative sample of what most users wanted from their phones you would think they wanted to spend half the day compiling the Linux kernel on their phone and the other half bemoaning if only they had the “right to repair” they could put their own headphone jack on their phone and get rid of those pesky AirPods

Post by MichaelCollins » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 8:02 AM UTC

keepquestioning wrote: post #99

Firmwarrior wrote: post #56

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Man, I used to love using Siri, until I had a daughter and named her "Sarah" big mistake. Turns out I say "Hey Sarah" a hundred times a day, and all my iDevices pipe up and simultaneously say "Yeah?" "WHAT'S UP" "HEY OVER HERE" "Hi it's me Siri what do you need?"

Why did you pick 'Sarah'

Post by squeaky-clean » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 8:40 AM UTC

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #145

pixl97 wrote: post #143

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I mean, you might be surprised but I'm sure there are more than a few users on HN that discus digital security configurations of large companies in their day jobs. I've been party to more than one conversation where some company unintentionally opened a security flaw for a short period of time that we discussed over a meeting, that if some evil 3rd party listened to may have gave them a window to exploit services.

The probability of someone just happening on that conversation while listening in, at just the right time, to just the right security engineer of the many security engineers in the company, approaches the probability of someone accidentally discovering the security flaw on their own. I think. It's hard to know with probabilities that are vanishingly small.