You said what?

The Telegraph: “But someone had entered the obscene seven-word phrase as the user’s name, so the phone blurted it out when it answered a question.”

The headline for the article is sensational, “iPhone Siri software tells boy, 12, to ‘shut up’ in Tesco”, but it does its job. I had to go see why Siri would say the eff word to a kid. Turns out someone typed the phrase as the users name. Siri was addressing the user.

Not as clever as I had expected. I thought it was going to be a genuine hack, not a prank a 10 year old could play.