I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works.<p>1- It's very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically.<p>2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have "Repeated Calls" enabled, which lets repeat FaceTime calls break through Do Not Disturb. Neat!<p>3- Now they are frustrated and want to throw their phone in a bucket of water to shut it up. The only way to block you is now to get your "info" in the recent callers list, scroll down and hit the "Block this caller" option. However the constant stream of incoming FaceTime calls takes over the UI every couple seconds.<p>As they fiddle with their phone trying to navigate to your info and/or hit decline, eventually they inadvertently hit accept, and you see their face.
I have to say, I think it's great that Apple doesn't try to do damage control on their reputation, but instead does damage control toward the customer. They could've kept the service working, created a fix and silently pushed it, but they didn't.
"It turned out that the teen who discovered the bug, Grant Thompson, had attempted to contact Apple about the issue but was unable to get a response."<p>Good they fixed this. Too often security vulnerabilities remain unaddressed, I think that was the case with Mariot hotels data leak, the staff knew for quite some there are privacy troubles. Now they're being fined for not taking action.
remember this idea how weird it is that everybody runs around with spying equipment, you have a always-online device with multiple cameras and microphones. I think people would be uncomfortable knowing that someone was listening or recording video without their knowledge, that's why people put stickers on their laptop cameras.
I think its obvious by now that manufacturers aren't capable of developing software that keeps the cameras/microphones secured. In the future we can just assume that any camera/mic in any phone is recording at any given moment and sending it to some malicious entity. Since there is no practical way of disabling the cameras/mics on phones, we just have to learn to live with it.
I prefer this verge link
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20689983/apple-watch-walkie-talkie-bug-disabled" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20689983/apple-watch-walk...</a><p>as techcrunch privacy settings are yahoo driven and I was never able to manage them - not sure they really give you an option
I have a series two Apple Watch and while the app shows up I was unable to get it to work back when I tried. I didn’t care that much so I just tried a couple times and gave up.
Also: apple mail is so horrendously broken, any multipart email is likely to fall apart and attachments get chopped off or corrupted every other email.