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by brown9-2 5323 days ago
Anyone with Wireshark or tcpdump could have already seen what IP address the Siri client communicates with it.

Any competitor's jealous of Siri aren't learning too much to find out that the client uses HTTP, compression, and binary payloads in what it sends over the wire to the Siri service - the magic is server-side. The client has to communicate with the service somehow.