Siri cracked, ported to other devices.

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Hackers from the mobile device maker, Applidium, have found a way to port the voice operated assistant Siri to other rival devices.

Through a blog post via the hacker’s blog, they revealed that ”today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol,” the Applidium developers wrote in ablog post. “As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! Or use Siri on an iPad!”

They also released a collection of tools that help to build apps based on Apple’s proprietary software – allowing devices to access the remote server used to process the voice clips.

According to The Register, “The Applidium developers reverse engineered Siri by setting up their own HTTPS servers with an SSL, or secure sockets layer, certificate they signed themselves. That allowed them to observe the commands Siri sent to Apple’s server, which is located at guzzoni.apple.com. They eventually found that the body of such requests is little more than a binary plist whose contents can be deciphered using the Mac OS X plutil tool.”

Typically, these holes are patched quickly – so take advantage now if you are interested.