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Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works. 1- It's very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically. 2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have…

Airplane mode in quick action bar to the rescue!

Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works. 1- It's very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically. 2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have…

Just wrap your phone into some tinfoil and it's over ;-)

Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works. 1- It's very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically. 2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have…

Are you doing this to your friends or strangers? The attack requires plenty of effort and an Apple iCloud account so not the eeasiest thing to scale.

Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works. 1- It's very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically. 2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have…

there's a block caller option in the contact area/recently called, someone did this to me before and it wasn't frequent enough to prevent me using the phone.

Even if it was, enable airplane mode, block caller, then disable airplane mode.

Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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This is all you see when clicking techcrunch articles: https://imgur.com/a/mId1Jfi If you "manage" your settings to block everything it'll just be back next time. As a consequence, I haven't read a techcrunch article since June 2018.

Interesting, I have never seen that and even tried in an Incognito tab and with Safari which I don't use regularly.

I'm guessing you're not in the EU then? I see this everywhere.

Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works. 1- It's very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically. 2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have…

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Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works. 1- It's very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically. 2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have…

For me the most annoying bit is how it’s impossible to do any action others than accepting or declining the call on the iPhone. It’s basicall a phone DOS.

Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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what privacy setting? i never get that popup. techcrunch is ok imo. the verge on the other hand won’t load for 3 seconds if i have an ad-blocker turned on. so i stopped visiting it since their ads are 90s level of terrible.

techcrunch is using oauth, one of the absolute worst offenders. They should be banned from hn altogether.

Nitpick: they aren't using OAuth, they are owned by Oath (now Verizon Media).

Re: Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

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The Verge doesn’t give me, in the UK, any options to control my level of cookie acceptance. They offer me two policies to read an an accept button.

At least they don’t redirect the page so you can block the overlay with an ad blocker and be done. Not saying this is OK (and definitely not compliant with the GDPR) but still slightly better.

TC's webdevs have been forced to put up that crap, but to their credit their site works very well without JS, so you can just block it wholesale. I still wouldn't share their links, though.
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