{"id":103103,"date":"2018-07-04T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=103103"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:20:29","slug":"siri-cyber-security-weaknesses-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/siri-cyber-security-weaknesses-uk-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Siri just highlighted cyber-security weaknesses at the heart of the British government?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Siri the most useless of all the AI assistants? Well, objectively speaking, probably, but Siri\u2019s lack of practical use can lull iPhone users into a false sense of security. Despite a lot of Softonic tutorials on mobile security, it is easy to forget that once activated, Siri is always listening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If Siri was listening in the Houses of Parliament, where else was she listening?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although it isn\u2019t ideal to forget that your PHONE could be listening to everything you say, most of us can get away with the oversight. If you\u2019re the Defense Secretary of the United Kingdom, however, there are a lot of things that you or the people around you might be saying that you don\u2019t want to\u00a0a hackable device to hear. In the UK Parliament yesterday, UK Secretary of Defense Gavin Williamson was interrupted by Siri trying to answer a query while he was talking about Syria.<\/strong> Siri is set to “always listening” on his phone. Let that sink in. Siri is listening to everything that UK Secretary of Defense is saying.<\/p>\n

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