Submitted via IRC for Bytram
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 ...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Lemming on Wednesday January 30 2019, @02:46PM
/e/ (called eelo before) is the privacy-first mobile OS and ecosystem: https://e.foundation/. [e.foundation] As this is not only about the OS, but also all the services ("in the cloud") the device connects to, /e/ offers an ecosystem of services build from open source software, so you can use their servers or you can choose to run your own.