Apple Issues FaceTime Bug Apology, Fix Coming Next Week

[AndrewFreedman]

Apple has issued a rare apology for a bug in FaceTime that allowed users to hear audio, and, under some circumstances, see video of others before they answered calls. A fix is scheduled to be issued next week.


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[raybob95]

The fact that fixing microphone and camera activation is a *server side* fix is a little bit disturbing. No protection for the app itself?

 

[JamesSneed]

The fact that fixing microphone and camera activation is a *server side* fix is a little bit disturbing. No protection for the app itself?

It does sound a bit scary but if you think about it all the voice and video data has to be sent to Apples servers then forwarded to everyone in the group facetime. However I do agree there does need to be an iOS fix that does not allow any voice or video to be transmitted unknowingly.

 

[hoofhearted]

The conspiracy theorist in me say that Apple did this on purpose so it could listen in on it's competitors meetings and patent their ideas before they could.