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Siri can open my garage door. http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door/ http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door/ It's n
by Ogre 15y ago
Siri can open my garage door. http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door/ http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door/
It's not quite as slick as his solution, but having to say "Text House" in front of commands is a small price, and there's no way Apple can "close the hole" in my case, short of not allowing Siri to send texts. I don't know why they would want to anyway.
Also, the $30 credit Twilio gives just for signing up may last over two years at the rate I actually use it (1 cent per text, $1/mo for the dedicated phone #. $24 for two years plus 300 actual uses at two texts per use since there's a reply sent to each command). So it's nearly free unless I think up some other stuff I want to do with it.
- sneak 15y agoI find it unlikely that Apple will intentionally close this hole, as it's just a hijacking of the TCP SSL connection, and requires that the mitm cert be manually installed on the handset beforehand for it to work. It's not really a "hack" in the security-related sense of the term, only in the "sweet hack" sense.
- Ogre 15y agoYeah, I agree, I was just responding to the article, "But the hack may not last long, with Mr Schappi predicting Apple would want to close the hole he exploited." On the other hand, Apple gets uppity in sometimes unpredictable ways.
- joshu 15y agoI'm working on building something similar, but don't want to have a computer on full time to run it. I'm using an PCEngines Alix board as the main control, and a remote relay board to run the garage door. I suppose I should write that up...