Providing users who aren’t overly concerned with privacy an option to forgo certain protections in favor of convenience is a good thing. Enabling those less secure conveniences by default, however, is not a good thing. Several security issues have been discovered that were brought about by the fact that Siri and other iOS conveniences are enabled by default when iPhones are locked. The biggest example, perhaps, was discovered in September last year: By default, anyone who finds a lost iPhone or steals an iPhone can make it impossible for owners to recover the lost handset in just a few seconds. And now, another big flaw has been uncovered. As noted in a recent post on NBC, Egyptian programmer Sherif Hashim has discovered a
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