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Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @02:58AM from the dave-what-are-you-doing dept.

squiggleslash writes "CNN reports that IBM CEO Jeanette Horan has banned Siri, the iPhone voice recognition system. Why? According to Horan '(IBM) worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere.' Siri's backend is a set of Apple-owned servers in North Carolina, and all spoken queries are sent to those servers to be converted to text, parsed, and interpreted. While Siri wouldn't work unless that processing was done, the centralization and cloud based nature of Siri makes it an obvious security hole."

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Re:But make sure to buy our cloud offering! by binarylarry · 2012-05-23 03:06 · Score: 5, Funny

I hope she doesn't find out what her employees use Google for!

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The tables will have turned. by FreedomOfThought · 2012-05-23 03:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Post-Ban of Siri

IBM Employee: "Siri?"
Siri:"Yes?"
IBM Employee: "Remind me to file for the patent on the [insert technology here], tomorrow."
Siri: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Re:IBM UBM WE ALL BM FOR IBM by Charliemopps · 2012-05-23 03:56 · Score: 4, Funny

IBM invents new things, clearly something Apples never been interested in. Good call.
Re:But make sure to buy our cloud offering! by RoboRay · 2012-05-23 04:25 · Score: 3, Funny

But... Google's not evil. They said so!