“‘Call me Pumpkin,’ I whispered to my iPhone 4S on a lonely evening,” Rosa Golijan blogs for MSNBC. “Siri — the virtual assistant feature built into the device — chirped briefly before acknowledging my request in a dulcet tone. ‘From now on, I’ll call you ‘Pumpkin.’ OK?'”
“I smiled. This new iPhone and I would get along just fine,” Golijan writes. “Or so I thought until I realized that Siri is a conniving harpy who’ll reveal our intimate terms of endearment to anyone with whom I’d shared my contact information.”
Golijan writes, “So how do you avoid revealing to your friends that you have your iPhone call you Cookie, Cupcake, Darling, Schnookums, and the like? Simple: Create a second contacts entry for yourself — one to which Siri won’t be making additions — and send that one to new pals instead of the one with embarrassing pet names attached.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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A whole new field of hacking is coming. Virtual identity shapeshifting.
Gotta love it.
Steve is back there somewhere, inside the soul of Siri.
…or just don’t call yourself pumpkin or cupcake.
Well, aren’t you the pill!
I bet HughB whispers to Siri to call him dickface.
‘From now on, I’ll call you ‘Pumpkin.’ OK?’
And Commander Data couldn’t use contractions.
When my wife tried “Call my husband” Siri replied “OK from now on I’ll call you ‘Husband’, OK?”…
Could it be that she was from Manchester…? (“Call me husband”)
Clever!
What kind of needy delusional person feels the need to have a device refer to them by a “pet” name?
Someone get the device away from them before they discover the vibrate mode.
My, aren’t we life of the party.
Or she just should get a life !
Siri – Steve Is Really Inside
Ive been without Siri all day. When oh when will she be back on line….
Online I say
Say “Beam me up, Scotty”…. I repeated this 5 times, and got 5 different smart-ass answers… AWESOME!!!! My favorite answer was “Wi-Fi or 3G?”
I tried that and Siri told me to “Stand still.”
I told Siri to beam me up and she did it- now I can’t get down 😉
My family has a beautiful orange cat named Pumpkin. I have suspected that he liked my iPhone. Now, I’m worried that he bought one for himself. I’ll be checking my credit card bills.
iPhone owners who have a burning need to develop a personal relationship with Siri should seek professional help immediately.
OK snookums, if you say so!
“Siri, where can I get professional help?”
That is just plain LOL!!