“A hacker has altered Apple’s voice-activated personal assistant Siri to interact with and change the temperature of his thermostat, opening a world of possible uses for Siri around the house,” Dean Wilson reports for The Inquirer.

“The hacker, known as Pete, tweeted about his development and put up a Youtube video showing it in action,” Wilson reports. “It works by using a proxy server for Siri, which allows the user to connect with other devices without the need for a jailbreak, since all of the action is occuring off the iPhone.”

Wilson reports, “The possibilities for expansion are endless, with Siri potentially becoming a household assistant, turning on and off lights, televisions, cookers, electric blinds, and doing other everyday tasks that we would rather talk to our iPhones about than do in person.”

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