Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week

Re:Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug las... by jonathanberger on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @11:29PM (#19032672)

It's not hard to reach a living person who works at Apple. The next step should have been reproducing it for that person. It's not clear that the finders in this story did that - it seems they might have been trying to find out about bounty payments first.

If any tech support or Apple Genius were to have seen this bug reproduced, it should have immediately been easy to flag to the right person.

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Re:Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug las... by dewey on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:36AM (#19033577)

What if you don’t live near an Apple Store like a lot of people do?

Saying that it’s not hard for a person to get in contact with someone working at Apple seems like a pretty biased view.

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Re:Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug las... by gpvos on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:13AM (#19033712)

"Looking for a bounty?" Where did you get that from?

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Re:Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug las... by justtopost on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:30AM (#19034522)

Bug Bounty I would assume, for finding the error.

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Re:Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug las... by gpvos on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:21AM (#19043303)

Of course. However: I didn't re-read the article, but I don't remember that it suggested anything of the sort, so GGP just projected that onto them.

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