A Bug in FaceTime Allows One To Access Someone's iPhone Camera And Microphone Before They Answered the Call; Apple Temporarily Disables Group FaceTime Feature (thenextweb.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday January 28, 2019 @05:29PM from the happy-data-privacy-day-to-you,-too dept.

Social media sites lit up today with anxious Apple users after a strange glitch in iPhone's FaceTime app became apparent. The issue: It turns out that an iPhone user can call another iPhone user and listen in on -- and access live video feed of -- that person's conversations through the device's microphone and camera -- even if the recipient does not answer the call. In a statement, Apple said it was aware of the bug and was working to release a fix later this week. In the meanwhile, the company has disabled Group calling functionality on FaceTime app. From a report: The issue was so serious that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and even Andrew Cuomo, governor of the state of New York, weighed in and urged their followers to disable FaceTime. [...] That's bad news for a company that's been vocal about privacy and customer data protection lately. The timing couldn't be worse, given that Apple is set to host its earnings call for the October-December quarter of 2018 in just a matter of hours.

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Re:How did this happen? by ellbee · 2019-01-28 17:52 · Score: 5, Funny

The public release wasn't supposed to be compiled with CIA_FBI_NSA=TRUE

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typo by astrofurter · 2019-01-28 18:13 · Score: 3, Funny

There is a typo in the headline. It should read: "A Feature in FaceTime Allows One To Access Someone's iPhone Camera And Microphone"
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