I wonder how you think my point was exactly directed to you since you don't defend them? It was obviously for those who do that you see here everyday
I know your point wasn’t technically directed at me.
Does that mean I cannot make a comment ?
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Apple Was Apparently Notified About Major FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug Over a Week Ago [Updated]
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I know your point wasn’t technically directed at me.
Does that mean I cannot make a comment ?
Sure you can and I didn't say you couldn't, it just seemed like you took it personally to you.
And would it record audio and video from phone and iPad both? Wouldn’t it stop after a couple days from the other persons end as soon as they made another phone call or something
Basically Apple's behaviour here is less analyzed than the woman's.
It's only a matter of wearing an uniform or your clothes. With the latest you're able to choose your style and reactions, with the first you don't stand a chance to have a personal idea, you just have to follow a screenplay
The answer should be yes. You can’t make a phone call and f/t at the same time.
She posted about the exploit over a week ago. Are you saying she retroactively hacked Twitter and inserted a tweet with a fake timestamp to get fame? That is reaching even for conspiracy theorists.
The claim of "zero credibility" because the person went to a news outlet doesn't make any sense unless what they claimed wasn't true. Since what the person claimed to be happening has been confirmed by Apple itself, they ARE credible. (one can question the person's MOTIVE for contacting the news, but that's not about credibility)
Oh ok, so not gonna answer my question, got it. Also, I really hope you don't think someone trying to fame whore actually got apple to act any quicker than it would with any other reporting method...
By no means I am defending apple, but I think this story doesn’t really mean apple don’t care about privacy. I think the reason is that apple support/apple care is really really bad. I think apples support is literal **** these years, cannot solve any problem and take months to do anything. The problem is probably just not reported to the engineering team.
I find it creepy that they could call and hang up and end up listening/watching for hours. I have two FaceTime calls that were not answered by me 5 days ago and one was a random person and the other was an unknown number. Usually I get zero FaceTime calls...now I’m becoming suspicious that they weren’t random at all..,
Truthfully though....this is a major blunder on Apple's part. I'm sure they get an inordinate amount of bug reports, both major and minor, every day. But when someone puts this on your radar on multiple fronts and it goes completely unanswered it's a sign that the review process if fundamentally flawed.
If this lady reported it on the 21st the Group FaceTime service should have been offline no later than the 22nd and there should have been a press release detailing the issue and the corrective action. Instead it sat there for a week until it blew up in their face.
No way to spin this other than a massive failure by Apple. Hopefully they learn from it and are better for it going forward.
Typical for a fat grown, arrogant company (that Apple has become).
John Meyer posting up more details on his timeline, has spoken to the mother, who is a lawyer in Arizona. Sharing, letters, email and video sent to Apple.
https://twitter.com/BEASTMODE/status/1090303269090529280
https://twitter.com/BEASTMODE/status/1090298850764644352
https://twitter.com/BEASTMODE/status/1090303269090529280
https://twitter.com/BEASTMODE/status/1090298850764644352
This is a week, people. Plus a day for the more fanatically precise. Yes, Apple should have responded right away. However, they would also need to investigate. Give that a day or two.
But we’re dealing with real people. I can imagine some overworked employee not reading it quickly enough. I hardly think Tim reads every communication sent his way and I doubt he was standing over the employees shoulder saying don’t respond.
But we’re dealing with real people. I can imagine some overworked employee not reading it quickly enough. I hardly think Tim reads every communication sent his way and I doubt he was standing over the employees shoulder saying don’t respond.
No I’m saying I’m skeptical about the current narrative that she alerted Apple and the company did nothing about it for over a week and only responded when it blew up on social media/rumor sites. Let’s see all the communications she had with Apple; let’s see all of Apple’s responses. Every news org under the sun is trying to get an interview with her. OK, fine, then let’s get Apple’s response as well.
I love how you fail to address anything that you continue to quote me on. Save your pretentiousness for someone else lol
As anybody who has ever filed one will attest Apple often don't immediately respond to bug reports.
Where are Apple’s responses? Surely this woman has them. Is Meyer going to be sharing those? Has he reached out to Apple for comment? Why is everyone ok with making assumptions based on one side of the story?
The Apple support team is Apple as a company as a whole, in the end of the day it's tied to Apple and even if it's true they didn't care then it means the Apple itself doesn't care.
This is awful. This is one of the worst bugs imaginable. This bug allowed remote users to spy on you. It also demonstrates that you aren’t in control of your privacy, despite everything Apple preaches. I mean how on Earth is their software written such that access to your microphone and camera can be granted without explicit user acceptance? FaceTime must be rotten to the core if this can happen.
This event points out what was always true, your iPhone and iPad are spy devices you willingly pay good money for. This makes me think a relative who turns off all cloud and connectivity services isn’t as crazy as I thought.
This event points out what was always true, your iPhone and iPad are spy devices you willingly pay good money for. This makes me think a relative who turns off all cloud and connectivity services isn’t as crazy as I thought.