IBM bans iPhone's Siri citing corporate esponiage concerns

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Submission + - IBM bans iPhone's Siri citing corporate esponiage concerns (cnn.com)

Submitted by squiggleslash on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @09:37AM

squiggleslash writes: CNN reports that IBM CEO Jeanette Horan has banned Siri, the iPhone voice recognition system. Why? According or 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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