242: ‘The Butts Incident’ With John Moltz

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

John Moltz makes his long-awaited return to the show. Three big topics this week: the Facebook VPN app fiasco (and the company’s pattern of ethical violations), the Group FaceTime bug that allowed callers to listen to audio before the call was answered, and Apple’s quarterly results.

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0:00.0	What a week.
0:01.0	I have created the mohobi.
0:04.2	No, really?
0:06.2	Oh, well, I forget that.
0:08.2	Oh, my God.
0:09.2	So what do we got?
0:10.2	We got big news, John Maltz.
0:11.2	We got FaceTime.
0:12.2	Yeah.
0:13.2	Big FaceTime bug.
0:15.0	We got a big Facebook scandal.
0:16.7	A couple of Facebook scandals.
0:17.7	All the face stuff.
0:18.7	We got Apple Quarterly results.
0:20.7	I say we go with Facebook first.
0:22.9	Okay.
0:23.9	That sounds like fun.
0:26.6	So as we recorded, we're recording on Wednesday, January 30th.
0:31.2	Still breaking on this story.
0:32.2	We don't quite know how it's going to end up.
0:33.7	But what we know is that yesterday TechCrunch, Ace Reporter, Josh Consteen, broke a big story
0:39.8	that Facebook got caught running some kind of spyware effectively.
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