Apple has temporarily disabled group facetime because apparently, an iphone bug allowed
anyone to call an iphone, ipad or mac, and listen to the person they are calling before
they pick up.
I’m going to tell you how you can protect your privacy while apple fixes this issue
in just a few seconds, but first, the intro.
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Gather round kids, lets talk about the latest, ridiculously bad tech security flaw.
Apple is scrambling to fix this catastrophically bad bug that could potentially result in law
suits.
Basically what you do is, you dial someone, swipe up, insert the originating number by
selecting add person before the call is answered.
Basically if you add yourself to a facetime call before the person you’re calling picks
up, you can trick face time into thinking that you’re already on an active call, a
group facetime conference call, which results in the transmission of audio before they have
actually picked up your call.
MIND BLOWN GUYS.
This is bad.
Like reeeeally bad.
I cant even tell you how many times I’ve gotten a call from someone I didn’t want
to answer at that moment, either my mom or an ex boyfriend or a friend I was mad at,
and I was talking to someone I was in the room with about how I didn’t want to answer.
Its not that I hated those people, usually, but I definitely wouldn’t want them to hear
what I was saying before I answered the phone.
And the worst thing is, this bug even works if the person doesn’t pick up, which is
even worse.
Imagine your mom hearing you tell your friend ‘ugh my mom is being so annoying right now,
I don’t want to answer her’.
Heres a video of the flaw, shared to twitter by benji mob, now you can answer for yourself
on face time even if they don’t answer.
Apple explain this.
Its in the gizmodo article.
According to the verge, if the recipient hits the power or the volume button to ignore the
call, their device will start sending audio, as well as video from its front facing camera,
again without any visual notification And 9 to 5 mac also said that the issue is
more serious with mac computers.
They replicated the problem with an iphone calling a mac.
By default, the mac rings for longer than an iphone does, so it cam act as a bug for
an even longer duration.
For now, to fix the flaw, apple has disabled group facetime, which fixes the issue for
most people but some people are still able to take advantage of it.
An update is scheduled for iphone later this week, so while apple fixes the servers, some
people will still be eavesdropping.
Until apple fixes this, I would recommend disabling facetime altogether.
On an iphone or ipad, Go to the settings app, and switch the facetime icon switch to gray
instead of green.
On a mac, go to the facetime app, click facetime in the menu bar, and then select turn on facetime.
Group facetime has experienced several prolems since its scheduled release in October of
2018.
Within days of the release, there was a lockscreen security flaw, and now, apparently people
can hear what you’re saying before you answer their call.
According to reports, this issue has been happening for the last 3 months.
Again, the new updade that fixes the problem should roll out some time this week, so this
shouldn’t be an issue for that much longer.
That’s all I have for you on this guys, its time to do some comment replies.
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