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I can't get Siri to turn on the flashlight or lock my phone. What can Siri do that's dangerous?
by newsbinator 8y ago
I can't get Siri to turn on the flashlight or lock my phone.
What can Siri do that's dangerous?
- exodust 8y agoSend emails is one example. I don't use Siri, but apparently it can send emails including to multiple recipients. The "danger" is only limited by your imagination in the scenario where a malicious stranger has access to your email client.
- newsbinator 8y agoI guess you could tell Siri, > Send an email to my mom that says, "I have an emergency and I need $2000. Here's the account number to send it to: 12345. Mom, please don't ask questions. This is urgent. Send the money now." Would Siri lookup your mom's email and send that?
- exodust 8y agoI have no idea, but a "smarter" email would be "mum can I borrow $100, pay you back ASAP, just a bit short today sorry and thanks!"... Mum would be less inclined to phone you in a panic.
- calimac 8y agoYes, Siri knows family
- Infernal 8y agoIf you have previously identified one of your contacts as your mother, yes. If not, Siri will ask who your mother is and if Siri should remember that piece of information.
- Infernal 8y agoTagging on to say I just tried this - even though I activate Siri without unlocking, I was asked to unlock my phone to continue with the email.
- djrogers 8y agoIn practice this will not work - assuming you only have a single email address for 'mom', it then will prompt you to unlock your phone, then show a confirmation screen with a send button on it. There are way too many interaction steps required by the device owner to make this specific one a feasible attack.
- Nelson69 8y agoWell, it can read your schedule, tell you your location and then there is the homekit stuff. It could potentially disable certain security features you might have installed at your house, it could possible perform a very expensive modification to your HVAC configuration, in an extreme case that could maybe be fatal (disable heating in the winter at an older person's home or something like that.) It can also read your messages which are used for MFA in some situations. My wife and I have our accounts hooked together and I can ask Siri where she is and it uses find my friends, it can also kick off find my iPhone which shows my wife's presumed location on a map. I think it can do Apple Pay actions too. Degrees of dangerous. I don't have a homepod but presumably it couldn't do anything with Apple pay or your messages. Having Alexa or Siri control home automation stuff seems like something you might want to think about a little, leaving the lights on all day and burning some energy is a very different thing than re-configuring your HVAC or a security camera.
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- djrogers 8y agoAt least on your phone, almost everything it can do that'd be 'dangerous' required your device to be unlocked or has a confirmation button (or both). Examples would be unlocking a door, opening your garage, sending an email/text message, sending Apple Pay Cash, etc.
- tinus_hn 8y agoCall or text an expensive pay line, read the codes sent in confirmation text messages or mails. Open a web page that has an exploit on it.