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Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up

posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 29 2019, @01:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the see-hear dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling ... before they pick up

A significant bug has been discovered in FaceTime and is currently spreading virally over social media. The bug lets you call anyone with FaceTime, and immediately hear the audio coming from their phone — before the person on the other end has accepted or rejected the incoming call. Apple says the issue will be addressed in a software update "later this week". (Update: Apple has taken Group FaceTime offline in an attempt to address the issue in the interim).

Naturally, this poses a pretty privacy problem as you can essentially listen in on any iOS user, although it still rings like normal, so you can't be 100% covert about it. Nevertheless, there is no indication on the recipient's side that you could hear any of their audio.

Update: There's a second part to this which can expose video too ...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:15PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:15PM (#793655)

    guess the worst would be people screening calls going "oh it's X, fuck that cunt I don't wanna talk to them ..."

    My wife's parents like to facetime her and are always convenient about doing it when we are in the middle of it. Pretty sure the worst would be seeing your daughter get banged when you just wanted to talk about vacation ideas.

  • (Score: 2) by lentilla on Wednesday January 30 2019, @06:45AM (1 child)

    by lentilla (1770) on Wednesday January 30 2019, @06:45AM (#793923)

    Look on the bright side - it might cut down on the number of calls.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Wednesday January 30 2019, @09:44AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday January 30 2019, @09:44AM (#793962) Journal

      or they start calling a lot more often...

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