'FaceTime bug' that you can hear the other party's voice before calling on the iPhone is discovered during a Fort Night play by a 14-year old boy


On January 28, 2019 local time, Apple's phone call application " FaceTime " released for iOS terminal and macOS terminal can pick up the voice of the partner who called while call is being called A bug that will become a topic has been called. This bug is what a boy just 14 years old discovered on the way of playing the popular game " Fort Knight " and it was obvious that Apple warned its existence for more than a week before it became a topic It is getting.

Apple's FaceTime bug was discovered by a teen playing Fortnite - CNET
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With Apple's FaceTime, a simple bug with only a few steps of easy operation was found that allows you to listen to the sound picked up by the other party even if the other party does not answer. Details of bugs and methods to prevent eavesdropping using bugs are summarized in the following articles.

Find a bug that you can hear the other party's voice before calling with iPhone's FaceTime - GIGAZINE



In order to deal with FaceTime bugs, Apple says it will also distribute software updates to the beginning of February 2019, and at the same time, taking measures to disable FaceTime's group call function from the server until the bug fix .

It is a FaceTime bug which became a topic all over the world on January 28 at a stroke but this bug has been found to have been reported to Apple's support account by Twitter users as of January 20 .

According to CNET , I found a FaceTime bug is a 14-year-old boy living in Arizona, USA, trying to use FaceTime's group call with a friend while playing Fort Knight with a friend on January 19 I found out by chance. Mother, Michele Thompson, who heard the presence of a FaceTime bug from a boy consulted a lawyer and reported a FaceTime bug to Apple.

Thompson has published a screen shot of the reply mail received from the Apple side when reporting a bug in e-mail, as "a proof that a report of FaceTime bug was sent to Apple's customer service" on Twitter account. Thompson says, "I did my best to report a bug to Apple, but they seemed to have not heard of it."


According to Thompson, in order to have Apple recognize the existence of FaceTime bug, Apple's Tim Cook told "If Apple does not respond to the FaceTime bug soon, this existence will be released shortly It is said that he sent a tweet warning that "Deaf", but he said that he later deleted the tweets. After experiencing bug reporting, Thompson says that the process of reporting bugs to Apple noticed that even lawyers who routinely submit legal documents have "been exhausted and indignant".

Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne on the Bug Bounty platform, says, "Voices from the crowd are definitely worth it if you can find a needle from the haystack," He says that it is difficult for people to report security bugs, but that situation is gradually changing.

Ultimately, Thompson was told by Apple's representative on the phone that "it is necessary to register as a developer to report a bug," accordingly, on January 23 it finally came about on FaceTime bug reporting I heard that he received contact from Apple. However, Thompson says, "There were no signs that Apple would fix the bugs at that time."

The following movie is a movie that Thompson used as a developer and used to explain the details of the FaceTime bug to the Apple side. It reproduced the situation that you hear the sound while calling a call using multiple iPhones, and it seems that this movie was uploaded on January 25th.


Thompson says, "It is very difficult for ordinary citizens to discover bugs and report it, it seems that they are receiving fake reports from many people, but there is no clear way to report the problem That will be very frustrating. "

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