FaceTime bug lets callers hear you before you answer (really)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facetime-bug-lets-callers-hear-you-before-you-answer-really/
Users have discovered a bug in Apple's FaceTime video-calling
application that allows you to hear audio from a person you're
calling before they accept the call--a critical bug that could
potentially be used as a tool by malicious users to invade the
privacy of others.
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Many years ago, on one of my visits to the 1127 lab where UNIX was
created (at Bell Labs, Murray Hill NJ) I noticed on the wall a joke "New
Bell System Custom Calling Features" sheet that included instructions
for the new "call monitoring" feature that supposedly let you dial a
prefix before a number then quietly listen in to any conversations on
that line. I really miss Bell Labs in its prime.
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