Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri 168
A user 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."
Not CEO (Score:5, Informative)
Jeanette Horan is the CIO, not the CEO.
Re:But make sure to buy our cloud offering! (Score:5, Informative)
For one, Siri can be used to write e-mails or text messages. So, in theory, Apple could be storing confidential IBM messages.
So it's stuff like this, that wouldn't be sent through Google or Bing, that she is concerned about. That actually makes a teensy, tiny grain of sense for a change...
Re:But make sure to buy our cloud offering! (Score:5, Informative)
Or maybe the fact that Apple knows WHO is doing the queries, and also that Siri collects a bunch of other stuff like names from your address book and 'other unspecified user data' makes it MUCH less secure.
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Re:How is that different from any search engine? (Score:5, Informative)
Watson did NOT have speech recognition for the Jeopardy game (although it gave it's answers as speech). Watson has nothing to do with speech recognition at all.