How likely is it that this is an intentional spying feature with plausible deniability as a bug?
Is there anyway to make sure you're not susceptible to such backdoors?
Facetime Spying
Adam Jenkins
Luis Ward
don't use tracking devices known as "smartphones"
Brayden Ortiz
There really isn't. It's just not a good idea to have fixed cameras and microphones attached to devices. If your work demands you have a "smart" phone, leave it in your car.
Angel Evans
These things are always intentional.
Jason Scott
Not very. Based on how it works, it wouldn't be especially useful for glowdarks. They also already have access to all of people's Apple data through the PRISM program, and supposedly they can remotely activate the microphone and camera on most smartphones whether it's running Facetime or not.
Sometimes a bug is just a bug.
Owen Wood
I totally didn't expect that. It wasn't obvious at all. I would be wary of Android phones too
Andrew Garcia
idiots with iphones are making the internet a worse place. ios does not even support file saving so they take screenshots of things and then some other idiot saves that file and more people take screenshots of it and eventually the original is lost and only those disgusting blurry screenshots are left.
Camden Rivera
No. It's both.
It shows how it just gives out the data requested even through no call had been accepted which means microphone and camera are freely accessible.
The bug in this case is asking for the audio and video data even through the call hasn't been accepted yet.
THIS IS HOW BOTNET APPLE IS
Kevin Taylor
Smartphones are all cancer it doesn't matter what brand it is
Gabriel Nelson
I don't get it (no applefag).
So what you're saying is that iOS automatically recompresses every saved image for no reason at all?
Jaxson Adams
he means the web browser. if EPIC MEME LOL!!! has no button "download image" then you cant download it for reposting on your twatter and faceberg so you need to screenshot instead and that lowers quality
Elijah Miller
But you can: osxdaily.com
Phone plebs are just retarded in general.
Alexander Adams
You’ve always been able to download images and can download any arbitrary file type since iOS 11. Would it you fags to even pretend to know what the fuck you’re talking about for once?
Aiden Morris
Prove it.
Anyone ever watch this and realize that Marty's boss can watch and listen to every videocall that he makes and receives to his own home?
Jose Wood
Maybe this isn't a bug in the alphabet soup.
Maybe this is a bug intentionally inserted for Apple and the major telecoms to spy on consumers?
Nathaniel Robinson
No. They're nice and friendly people.
Zachary Brooks
Mason Scott
It's the Vatican backed groups following the old Hitlarian plan backed by the British/Dutch Royal family funding the operations with Saudis and Chi-Coms!!! WAKE UP SHEEEEPPLE!!!!!!!
Lucas Green
Is no one even going to humor this idea?
Charles Long
the other imageboard is full of these files that have weird long id filenames and someone told me that its a screenshot taken with a iphone. why would anyone do that if it actually supports normal file saving?
Hudson Richardson
Can anyone give me a good reason why the government shouldn't be able to listen in to your phone calls? It's a powerful tool for law enforcement which allows a targeted allocation of resources based on real-time threat assessments. No brainer if you ask me.
Sebastian Bailey
It's a protection against abuses by government.
What I find more worrisome is that Apple and the telecoms could have used these bugs to listen in on unsuspecting consumers, even bystanders who don't own iphones but were in the vicinity when this shit happened.
Even if they didn't, Apple is liable for serious possible damages.
Ryan White
Archive link for first image:
archive.fo
(Related article from the same source that very recently brought to the "tech mainstream" a cuckchan meme: archive.vn
Sebastian Price
Shalom, I don't think they spy on you. Everyone should use Facetime. It's so easy.
Alexander Long
It might explain why I get a phone call from a spoofed number every few day for the past several years. I always assumed it was to confirm the number was active but it might have been to spy in me. But they be never call via face time so maybe I'm safe. Wonder if a similar bug will emerge with regards to regular phones calls. This bug is so simple I'm surprised it wasn't discovered sooner.
Josiah Long
File saving on those devices means they magically go into the Photos app.
They probably don't keep the file names.
Phonefags are the absolute worst.
Adam Hernandez
Yeah this, you can but isn't it great that it only took until IOS FUCKING 11?
Cooper Edwards
Grayson White
Saving images on iOS as is or as a png screenshot requires you to copy and paste it into the Files app manually, which, I assume, most users don’t even know.
Isaac Gonzalez
EFF are worthless.
Brayden Wright
When did programmers stop calling it source?
Ryder Ortiz
I'm more pissed off that the EFF is the PR machine for Apple Inc., excusing them for highly egregious privacy violations.
Jayden Jones
Apple probably dropped a pretty pennty into their caufers, but they sided with Snowden anyways, so I knew they were garbage.