Are there any specific Faraday bags that folks recommend?
Why not just turn on airplane mode?
If you don't trust the software in the first place, there's no real reason for you to trust that airplane mode is actually effective.
FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
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Re: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
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Unless Apple decides they face significant legal exposure over the bug somehow I don't see them doing that. It would attract so much more attention that it would almost certainly not be worth it economically. I wonder if they (executives? engineers? the company itself?) could be charged with aiding and abetting wiretapping or something now that they know it's happening and are letting their servers keep doing it.
Anyone got Tim Cook's number? If you do, bet you can get some, uh, exposure for this problem real quick.
"We must keep fighting for the kind of world we want to live in. On this #DataPrivacyDay let us all insist on action and reform for vital privacy protections. The dangers are real and the consequences are too important." - Tim Cook today in what is now a bit ironic
https://mobile.twitter.com/tim_cook/status/10900017677801799...
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not Apple related, but you could log into any linux box using a specific few versions of grub2 by hitting backspace 28 times: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpdqz/hack-into-...
This bug only applied to grub authentication, which isn't a widely used feature. And you could achieve the same result with boot from disk/USB if that is enabled. The vuln doesn't give you access to the actual accounts on the computer.
Let's not forget https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2013-1050/ and https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-7496/ and https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-8900/ (to a lesser extent). Check out https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=... for more fun.
Re: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
#124This sort of thing is why I'd prefer devices to come with hardware killswitches for mic, video, and various radio modules.
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#125People always ask me why I have the camera on my computer covered. There is still far too much trust in technology.
Re: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
#126What about updates for people who don't update often or don't even see that there's an update? This is way too critical a bug for people who don't follow the news to not be taken care of (their devices, I mean). Apple keeps pushing major new version iOS downloads forcefully down to devices without any way of opting out, yet what I've seen is that point updates are left as optional and may not even show up unless one…
> Apple keeps pushing major new version iOS downloads forcefully down to devices without any way of opting out
iOS upgrades are not mandatory by any means.
> no waiting for the phone to be on the charger overnight, etc.
This is how you get phones running out of battery halfway through an update.
Re: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
#127Just tried this with my brother. Apparently I can listen to his iMac audio from my phone. This could mean and increase in the time to fix the bug.
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#128I'm always curious how a bug like this ships. I mean QA & Testing should catch it, sure. But even before then. Some engineer wrote code for FaceTime that has it open the microphone before the call is accepted. And transmit the audio over the network before the call is accepted. Who did that? And why? I'm not suggesting malice but I do wonder at the lack of defensive programming.
Maybe it's not a bug, but something akin to a backdoor that has been uncovered.
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#129Not for long. Will be patched in hours, I bet.
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Re: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless Apple decides they face significant legal exposure over the bug somehow I don't see them doing that. It would attract so much more attention that it would almost certainly not be worth it economically. I wonder if they (executives? engineers? the company itself?) could be charged with aiding and abetting wiretapping or something now that they know it's happening and are letting their servers keep doing it.
Anyone got Tim Cook's number? If you do, bet you can get some, uh, exposure for this problem real quick.
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