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

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

z9znz wrote: post #78
BudaDude wrote: post #64

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It makes no sense that Siri is so stunted in what she can do.

No kidding! She obviously knew what was wanted, but instead of doing her fing job, she tells you how to do it yourself. She doesn't like when I tell her to F herself. I hope some of those recordings end up with Apple training.

May they be hedging against a vulnerability where a malicious person with similar enough voice closes some crucial app in a sticky situation. It's not as harmless than setting reminders/alarms which I use Siri for.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

hazyc wrote: post #18

Is anyone else an avid iPhone user, yet also someone who never uses Siri? I've used an iPhone exclusively for the past 8 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've used Siri. Interestingly, the one person I know who loves using Siri is my 70yr old dad.

I have never enabled Siri on any device. Precisely for fear of this kind of shit, or the ones where humans are listening to the recordings that are obviously being made, and all of the other logical conclusions one can reach on how this can be abused.

Just like HDD failures, it is not a question of if but when.

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

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Post by jdwithit »

aquajet wrote: post #79
freeplay wrote: post #14

I think they burried the lede here. Conversations with Siri are probably pretty generic but being able to evesdrop on keyboard dictation is pretty severe. I know people that use dictation for the majority of their text messages and email.

How many people use diction? I'm surprised cause I know virtually no one who uses diction, myself included.

My father in law (mid 70s) uses it constantly to compose text messages. I'm not sure I've ever seen him type one.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

TheLoafOfBread wrote: post #71
yazzku wrote: post #13

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> Find out how much the vuln is worth in the black market, then ask Apple double that. Well, because he is not a corporation, he will get jumped on by lawyers and will go to jail for blackmailing Apple.

Blackmailing? It's called negotiating from a strong position.

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

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Post by jdwithit »

z9znz wrote: post #75
hazyc wrote: post #18

Is anyone else an avid iPhone user, yet also someone who never uses Siri? I've used an iPhone exclusively for the past 8 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've used Siri. Interestingly, the one person I know who loves using Siri is my 70yr old dad.

I use Siri to set a timer. That's it. And I do it by holding my power button to activate her. My only other use of Siri usually involved phrases like "stop", "go away", "close", "fucking close!", "you stupid f cking * ** close the **** thing" when Siri would pop up out of nowhere and interrupt whatever I was actually doing. I had it turned off, but occasionally somehow it's back on, listening. Other actual attempts a…

Same here. Even that simple task (setting a timer) only has about a 75% success rate for me. The other 25% it spins for 30 seconds then says "hmm something went wrong". Trying for anything more complex, even playing a song or album, is just asking for trouble. I honestly can't believe how bad Siri is despite years of development.

I do have an older iPhone 10 and maybe it's just not up to the task of running Siri? But if so they should disable it rather than put on this extremely amateur feeling show.

For what it's worth we have an Echo Dot in the house and I find it to be both orders of magnitude more responsive and more likely to actually do what I asked for. No unwanted refrigerators have arrived as of yet.

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

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Post by keepquestioning »

Firmwarrior wrote: post #56
dfee wrote: post #23

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I use Siri all the time and am half your dads age. “Get directions to the nearest gas station.”, “What’s the score of the Giant’s game?”, “Play Master of Puppets”, “What is 4’3” in centimeters?” And many, many more.

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'

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

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Post by gw99 »

codalan wrote: post #43
gw99 wrote: post #10

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The scary thing is it's the least bad option when it comes to overall reliability.

I think it depends on the phone. The Google Pixel series seems pretty solid for reliability. I have a Pixel 7 Pro and it's been really good so far in terms of software and build quality. I strongly prefer it to my iPhone 13 Pro, which I'm currently selling off. But iPhone vs Samsung Galaxy? iPhone wins by a mile. I never got used to the custom interface Samsung loaded onto those phones, and hated that it included Sam…

I have an iPhone 13 Pro. I found that Android is almost a brick the moment you lose an Internet connection where as the iPhone is still productive and I can do stuff offline and it'll sync everything later no problems.

That is a complete dealbreaker for me for Android. Also, Google.

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