Siri opens “smart” lock to let neighbor walk into a locked house

by Lisa Vaas

Apple’s HomeKit security has been foiled by a recently discovered security hole: it listens to Siri if you ask it to open the front door.

A 31-year-old Missouri man by the name of Marcus (he asked Forbes not to use his last name) last week posted the tale on Reddit.

As he told Forbes, a month ago, Marcus decided to set up his place as a smart home, all based on the Apple HomeKit smart-home gadget ecosystem.

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