Once the folks at Applidium had cracked the Siri protocol, it was only a matter of time before the first mods, exploits and hacks started to leak out. Because Siri relies on Apple’s servers to deliver results, the limitations on what it can and can’t do are entirely controlled at the server end. However, with the way Siri communicates with the data center now fully understood, a developer called Plamoni has managed to create his own custom handlers, using a proxy to catch terms and act upon them accordingly.
Siri has so much more potential than Apple have allowed it to have, and there are developers who want to open up its full potential and Plamoni is one of them.
Using the proxy method, Plamoni can now control his Wi-Fi thermostat via Siri, with natural speech parsed as you’d expect, and Siri responding as if it was connected directly to Apple. There are more commands are being added daily, with a Twitter module already included. The best news of all is this doesn’t require a Jailbroken device, just the installation of a fake root certificate onto the phone.
The proxy software is available on GitHub along with instructions, at the moment though the developer warns that it’s not for the faint-hearted, and whether it’ll play nice with your Nest is another matter entirely.
Hopefully this is something that can be implemented onto the iPhone 3G and 4 giving Siri a way of bypassing Apples servers. Siri is something that should of came with the update to IOS 5, the fact that Apple are using a slight piece of software as the full selling point for a new piece of hardware.
You can view the video of the Siri hacks below.
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