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For the second time this week we start the day with security news.

If you use the walkie-talkie feature on Apple Watch, no you don't. At least not right now.

Tech Crunch says Apple has disabled the feature due to an unspecified vulnerability that could allow a person to listen

to another customer's iPhone without consent.

In a statement to Tech Crunch, Apple said we were just made aware of a vulnerability related to the walkie-talkie app on the Apple watch and have disabled the function as we quickly fix the issue. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience

and will restore the functionality as soon as possible, although we are not aware of any use

of the vulnerability against a customer and specific conditions and

sequences of events are required to exploit it, we take the security and privacy of our

customers extremely seriously. We concluded that disabling the app was the

right course of action as this bug could allow someone to listen through another

customer's iPhone without consent, we apologize again for this issue and the inconvenience.

Tech Crunch says the vulnerability was reported through Apple's report of

Vulnerability portal. The piece says the walkie-talkie app will remain on Apple

Watch, however it will not work until the fix is in or out until it's done.

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