Mac OS Ken: 02.04.2019

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

- Apple Apologizes for Group FaceTime Flaw; Pushes Fix to This Week - Apple to Store Russian iCloud Info on Russian Servers - Apple Lowering iPhone Prices in Some Foreign Markets - Report: Sales Surge on Lower-Priced iPhones in China - Report: Apple Staffing Up for Streaming Video - Patently Apple: Apple Update Apple TV Trademark with Emphasis on Gaming - Rumor: Apple to Launch "Netflix of Games" - Apple Marks Heart Month with Weeklong Watch Challenge - Get $100 off the best-selling WiFi package and a year of eero Plus, visit eero.com/macosken and at checkout enter macosken - Power Mac OS Ken through Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken! - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:07.0	This is Mac OS Ken.
0:11.0	About that group Face Time Fix, a reported iPhone surge in China, and a bit of services
0:18.0	speculation.
0:19.0	It's Monday the 4th of February, 2019.
0:23.2	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from Maco-S Ken.
0:28.6	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Euro.
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0:38.0	Use offer code maco-west can at euro.com slash MacO-S-Ken. This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through
0:50.6	Patreon. Find out more and at your support at patreon.com slash Macoescan.
1:00.0	It turns out four and a half days wasn't quite enough to fix the group
1:04.9	FaceTime flaw. No doubt you remember the flaw which had people able to eavesdrop
1:10.0	on a group Face Time call recipient, even if that recipient never accepted the call.
1:15.8	When the story broke, Apple knocked the service offline.
1:19.6	It also says it knew what was wrong and would have a fix later in the week. That was last
1:26.1	week to the company's credit. It knew by Friday that it was going to miss its
1:30.8	self-imposed deadline.
1:33.2	On Friday, Venture Beat ran a piece on a statement issued by the company.
1:37.6	In it, Apple apologized, addressing the first and worst part of the security
1:41.8	vulnerability, the fact that it happened.
1:45.3	The company also gave a shout out in the statement addressing a second part of the story.
1:50.2	The part where members of the Thompson family reported the issue to Apple about a week before news of the vulnerability hit the public.
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