Another New iPhone Security Flaw Offers A Reminder: Turn Off Siri On Your Lockscreen

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/30/another-new-iphone-security-flaw-offers-a-reminder-turn-off-siri-on-your-lockscreen/

By Andy Greenberg
Forbes Staff
Security
9/30/2013

Apple watchers have been warning for years that Siri's loose lips can leak 
secrets from a locked iPhone. Now a new security bug offers a more 
pressing reason than ever to turn her off on the phone’s lockscreen.

Late last week Israeli security researcher Dany Lisiansky spotted another 
in a growing series of bugs in iOS 7's lockscreen on the iPhone that 
allows anyone to bypass the security code or fingerprint reader to access 
the phone's calling application, contacts, and voicemail. This trick works 
by using Siri to make a phone call and then triggering a glitch in the 
phone’s Facetime function.

Lisiansky explains in his step-by-step instructions accompanying the 
video:

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