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Apple Releases iPhone Update To Fix Group FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug (cnet.com)
Apple on Thursday released iOS 12.1.4, an iPhone update that fixes a Group FaceTime bug that allowed users to eavesdrop on each other. The update is a available for the iPhone 5S and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation. From a report: Last week, Apple turned off Group FaceTime after a bug was identified that allowed iPhone users to call another device via the FaceTime video chat service and hear audio on the other end before the recipient had answered the call. It essentially turned any iPhone into a hot mic without the user's knowledge. Apple on Friday said it'd fixed the vulnerability on its servers and that it'd issue a software update to re-enable Group FaceTime. Apple also apologized to users who were affected and said it takes the security of its products "extremely seriously."
This just in, Apple has handed over iCloud data over to law enforcement. Same Apple that said they never would, that refused to help the FBI get data from a mass shooter's phone in California. They now turned over data with a simple single request.
The Gateway Pundit article is misleading. Apple refused to unlock the phone of the shooters, but did turn over their iCloud information after being served a warrant. Same as they did with Stone. AppleInsider's story is more informative:
The information provided on Stone is the same type of information that Apple provided from the San Bernardino shooter's device from 2016 after a warrant was served. Unlike the San Bernardino iPhone 5C, a device unlock has not been requested for Stone's devices, nor has one been performed.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
So everyone with older devices is left to rot?
You mean the ones that cannot run Group FaceTime to begin with... Derp!
Fuck you, Apple.
No sir - fuck *you*. And the already dead horse you came in on.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
They were server with a warrant you asshole. So it was either give the data or goto jail.
He's not dead yet! In fact, he's going for a walk and feels happy!
Oh really.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Have you ever heard the phrase "the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing?"
Yeah, just patch the thing and ship it.
No need to run full regression tests and make sure the fix didn't break anything else.
Yeah, just patch the thing and ship it.
No need to run full regression tests and make sure the fix didn't break anything else.
If fixing a bug in an app breaks your OS, then your OS is garbage.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The Gateway Pundit article is misleading. Apple refused to unlock the phone of the shooters, but did turn over their iCloud information after being served a warrant. Same as they did with Stone.
A right-wing information source is giving incorrect information, that anyone could easily disprove but which their readers never verify for themselves? Must be Thursday. Or Tuesday. Or some other day ending in a "Y".
Seriously, folks, when you see a story too crazy to believe, that's probably because it's false. Please don't be so gullible. This goes for you left wing folks too, unless it's something insane that Trump or Steve King supposedly said/tweeted. In that case, well, experience shows it's probably true.
Perhaps they could if Apple weren't preventing users from implementing it themselves via the power of proprietary software. The grandparent poster's sentiment is correct but comes from the wrong angle—the proper argument which all proprietors lose to is to point out how proprietary software is anti-user. Keeping devices working for the user is far more important economically to the user and far more important to the ecology than taking the pro-proprietor angle. And those values are far more important to our well-being and ability to continue to live on this planet, thus making them far more important values overall.
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If an app could expose this security hole then the OS is not secure by design (or implementation).
If it is not fixed at the OS level we just have to wait for the next similar vulnerability to be discovered.
Seriously, folks, when you see a story too crazy to believe, that's probably because it's false. Please don't be so gullible. This goes for you left wing folks too, unless it's something insane that Trump or Steve King supposedly said/tweeted. In that case, well, experience shows it's probably true.
I'm a libertarian, so I don't trust any of them. However, I often find the accusations of what Trump said/tweeted is mischaracterized. Take for instance the time he asked Russia if they could find Hillary's missing emails. It was clearly a joke, and anyone who claims to not understand this is either lying or stupid. They're the same ones who will mod this down to maintain their narrative.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
You seem really defensive for some reason.
Trump's statements about El Paso and the fencing/wall there are laughably false. Almost every statement about North Korea has been uninformed, untrue, or a prediction which was unlikely at the time (and later shown incorrect). He brags about the record-breaking growth in his economy when the growth was notably better under Obama. And those are all just from last week, are provably false in context, and they are believed by many conservatives.
During Obama's term, a survey showed that more than 50% of conservatives were not certain that Obama was an american citizen. I... don't know what to say about that, except that it implies that you cannot overestimate the gullibility of the modern conservative. I cannot think of anything which was both so easily disproven and was as widely believed by liberals. There are crazy beliefs on both sides, but one side is so clearly off-the-rails compared to the other.