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Strangers Can Access Your New iPhone 4S Even if Passcode-Protected

Smartphone security is now reaching the same level of importance as personal computers, with experts emphasizing the necessity of setting passwords to lock the phone from outside users. But if you own an iPhone, your password could be bypassed and information given by none other than Apple’s newest craze: Siri.

Siri, iPhone 4's personal, voice activated assistant answers almost any question and can complete almost any task you throw at it. But it has recently been found that Siri can also be used when your iPhone is in a locked mode.  There is a way to lock Siri, however, to make sure this doesn’t happen, go to “Settings,“ ”General,“ and then ”Passcode.“ From there turn the ”Siri” option off.

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