Apple has invented a Privacy Security Feature for Siri that will detect an Imposter s voice & not execute commands
Yesterday the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to Siri not executing a command if the voice making the command isn t the owner of the device. Siri s Magical Experience will extend to privacy and security in future versions of AirPods through to Macs.
As part of Apple s privacy strategy, the company is developing a voice recognition system for Siri so that it will only execute a command if it recognizes the device owner s voice.
Technically speaking, Apple notes that a
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The Princess Bride, the character of Vizzini famously says: Ha ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line. I don t know if it s surpassed either of those yet, but quickly moving up the list would be Never try to patent troll Cloudflare. Apparently, the patent troll Sable Networks has just made exactly that blunder.
About a decade ago, the online retailer Newegg pioneered the strategy of attacking back on patent trolls. The entire patent trolling business model is based on the fact that it is almost always cheaper to settle a patent trolling case than to fight it and win. A full patent trial will cost over a million dollars easily, and sometimes multiples of that. But many patent trolls file a ton of lawsuits, hoping to settle each for well less than what it takes to fight in court. It