Major FaceTime Privacy Bug Lets You Spy on Your Contacts Before They Answer

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It would appear that a major FaceTime vulnerability has been unearthed recently, which could allow you to spy on your contacts by hearing the audio of their iPhone before they answer.

Today is National Privacy Day, so we can’t celebrate the event without a major privacy issue, which was recently discovered in all of Apple’s devices supporting the FaceTime app that lets users communicate with each other over Wi-Fi or mobile data using video or audio-only chats.

It would appear that when initiating a video chat with one of your contacts, you will be able to hear on the audio of the respective person before they will answer. To put it simply, you can literally spy on them if you want to a simple trick that shouldn’t be there in the first place, but Apple still allowed it to happen.

Here’s how to reproduce the FaceTime bug

Softpedia has reproduced the FaceTime bug with an iPhone 7 and iPhone 6. We initiated a FaceTime video chat from the Phone app fr… (read more)

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