“Apple’s new ‘Siri’ feature, the voice-activated personal assistant built into the iPhone 4S, leaves owners’ spanking new smartphones partially unguarded,” Graham Cluley blogs for Spohos.
“Even if an iPhone 4S is locked with a passcode, a complete stranger can come up to your smartphone, press the button and give Siri a spoken command,” Cluley reports. “I borrowed a passcode-locked iPhone 4S from a colleague here at Sophos and, with his permission, was able to write an email, and send a text message. If I had wanted to I could have meddled with his calendar appointments too. All without having to enter the passcode.”
Cluley reports, “Fortunately there’s an easy way for security-conscious users to disable Siri when their phone is locked. Enter ‘Settings/General/Passcode Lock’ on your iPhone 4S, and make sure that the ‘Siri’ option is set to ‘Off.’ That way Siri cannot be used when the smartphone is locked with a passcode.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “justin time” for the heads up.]