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Hackers Can Silently Control Siri From 16 Feet Away

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Wired; By Andy Greenberg 		Mail this story
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Siri may be your personal assistant. But your voice is not the only one she listens to. As a group of French researchers have discovered, Siri also helpfully obeys the orders of any hacker who talks to her-even, in some cases, one who's silently transmitting those commands via radio from as far as 16 feet away.

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