Apple built into a new mobile phone iPhone 4S technology SIRI, which allows you to control your phone using your voice. Thanks to this technology, you can also make a call, write an SMS or send an email. Of course, you also have access to the entire Address Book, or contacts. ProThe problem is, however, that it is possible SIRI can be used even when the phone is locked and password-protected. Anyone who gets access to your locked phone can do almost all the important things with it as if they knew the password. The flaw was first noticed by security firm Sophos and its consultant Grahan Cluley.
Grahan borrowed a phone from a colleague iPhone 4S protected by a code and yet he could write emails, text messages or make calls from it. Grahan considers this feature very dangerous and a phone that has it enabled SIRI is essentially the same as a phone that is not locked at all. Cluley says that this fact makes it Apple very disappointing and should be factory reset SIRI when the phone code is turned on, it is turned off. ProYou can easily fix this problem by going to Settings – General – Passcode Lock and turning it off in the following settings. SIRIIf you do so, you will not be able to use the assistant. SIRI while the phone is locked with a numeric code. However, Cluley says that only a very small fraction of users will do this.
