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FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

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Post by Twisell »

npunt wrote: post #292
blazespin wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What possible motivation would anyone have for reporting a real bug of this nature like this? Other than, yeah, found a crazy bug.

Stock manipulation perhaps? Happens a lot with Tesla apparently, short sellers will pump up any negative story and try to get it into press. This person was making several attempts to get in contact with press after all, and a story about a teenager finding a big privacy bug in a company that publicly touts its privacy chops has ‘news at 11’ written all over it. Personally I think a bug report story is not a particul…

Also timing, Apple publish their quarterly earning results this afternoon in an already peculiar context. It’s the first time they missed guidance over the decade.

Ps: As others noted maybe it’s fair enough if support failed to acknowledge the bug quickly enough.

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Post by Jonnax »

codedokode wrote: post #240
judge2020 wrote: post #47

Earlier 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-...

Also, you can bypass screen lock in Ubuntu by removing the HDD [1]. The bug still is not fixed. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1777415

That's a bug in Unity. They dropped their own desktop environment in 18.04 for GNOME.

So it's likely it won't ever be fixed.

Re: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

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Post by illwrks »

My colleague and I experienced the same thing last week on his Samsung phone. Another colleague was calling us to talk about a project, we were chatting away and in the few seconds before the phone was 'answered' our colleague heard what we were talking about.

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Post by yoz-y »

kiwijamo wrote: post #41

The other day my friend Alice (not real name) attempted a FaceTime call to Bob. To both our surprise my phone rang with a FaceTime call from Alice (and as far as we know, Bob never received the call). Holding both our phones together, Alice phone was showing a call to Bob while my phone was showing a call from Alice. A very strange fluke which makes me wonder how robust the FaceTime code is.

Not related to face time but once I sent a two part SMS to my mother (over 140 characters and all that). Her reply made no sense, she was talking about stuff I have not said in my text at all. After much of confused back and forth, I have found out that she received the first part of my SMS correctly, but the second part was taken from some completely random message that probably somebody else sent. I suppose that in some other part of the world there were another two confused people who got the texts mixed the other way round.

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Post by yoz-y »

paulie_a wrote: post #164
dawnerd wrote: post #21

While they're getting a fix ready, might be smart to just disable FaceTime if you don't rely on it. https://www.imore.com/how-to-turn-on-off-restrict-facetime-i...

That just seems like a good idea anyways. FaceTime as a product just flat out seems stupid.

Why? I use it all the time and in terms of simplicity it beats all other video calling products.

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Post by scottishfiction »

RKearney wrote: post #173
bitpush wrote: post #63

I don't want to be harsh, but Apple really should walk the talk regarding privacy. It has its heart in the right place but bugs like this show how careless they are.

I never thought of Apple as caring much about privacy given the insane amount of third party tracking scripts loaded in apps on the AppStore. What I would give for LittleSnitch running on iOS...

Set up https://www.charlesproxy.com/ on the same network as your phone, then set it to be the phone's proxy server. Voila, you can now be horrified by the amount of tracking going on. You can even MITM SSL traffic by adding a trusted CA to your phone.
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