{"id":36226,"date":"2019-01-29T21:47:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36226"},"modified":"2019-01-29T21:47:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T02:47:18","slug":"nyt-iphone-facetime-bug-that-allows-spying-was-flagged-to-apple-over-a-week-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36226","title":{"rendered":"NYT: iPhone FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying Was Flagged to Apple Over a Week Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/29\/technology\/facetime-glitch-apple.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage\">iPhone FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying Was Flagged to Apple Over a Week Ago<\/a> by Nicole Perlroth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 On Jan. 19, Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old in Arizona, made an unexpected discovery: Using FaceTime, Apple\u2019s video chatting software, he could eavesdrop on his friend\u2019s phone before his friend had even answered the call.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His mother, Michele Thompson, sent a video of the hack to Apple the next day, warning the company of a \u201cmajor security flaw\u201d that exposed millions of iPhone users to eavesdropping. When she didn\u2019t hear from Apple Support, she exhausted every other avenue she could, including emailing and faxing Apple\u2019s security team, and posting to Twitter and Facebook. On Friday, Apple\u2019s product security team encouraged Ms. Thompson, a lawyer, to set up a developer account to send a formal bug report.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t until Monday, more than a week after Ms. Thompson first notified Apple of the problem, that Apple raced to disable Group FaceTime and said it was working on a fix. The company reacted after a separate developer reported the FaceTime flaw and it was written about on the Apple fan site 9to5mac.com, in an article that went viral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: iPhone FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying Was Flagged to Apple Over a Week Ago by Nicole Perlroth: SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 On Jan. 19, Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old in Arizona, made an unexpected discovery: Using FaceTime, Apple\u2019s video chatting software, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36227,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226\/revisions\/36227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}