Apple Now Facing Lawsuit Over FaceTime Glitch

[Lucian Armasu]

Houston Attorney sued Apple because it pushed a bug to iOS users that made it possible for third-parties to listen on people's conversations without them being aware of this.

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[jaexyr]

Hahaha

 

[JamesSneed]

lol tin foil hat time. Its a bug, obviously.

 

[CerianK]

However, we no longer live in a time where back-doors are tolerated as such. For them to exist intentionally and still allow for plausible deniability, they have to be hidden in plain sight and/or disguised as a bug. Therefore there will be no provable 'light on how exactly the bug happened', even if it is truly innocent.

 

[derekullo]

It seems rather convenient that he would wait till Apple discloses the already fixed bug before filling a lawsuit.

According to the article as soon as Apple was made aware of the issue they took down the FaceTime service.

An immediate warning to all users wasn't needed since they had already taken down the service.

Once it was fixed Apple sent a patch out and turned the service back on, along with notifying their users about the issue.

The bug itself was potentially a big issue and definitely arguable about in court.

 

[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.

 

[JamesSneed]

Tin foil hat folks are funny. You don't implement something like this on purpose. Seriously if you do this on purpose you use a nice encrypted key exchange to enable it not some silly method of adding yourself to a group facetime that literally anyone can perform. Apple owns the servers already so they can watch/listen to whatever they want anyhow so I say why would they do this on purpose anyhow? Apple simply messed up.