Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, January 29th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a pretty major FaceTime bug from Apple. The DOJ makes its case against Huawei. The first successful

I.C.O. of the year, and what Bluetooth direction finding might do for you. Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. This might be fixed by the time you hear this, hopefully it is, but a significant bug has been discovered

in Apple's FaceTime system, which lets a caller hear audio or even

video from a recipient's phone before a FaceTime call has even been accepted or rejected.

According to 9 to 5 Mac, here is how the bug works.

Quote, Start a FaceTime video call with an iPhone contact.

Whilst the call is dialing,

swipe up from the bottom of the screen and tap Ad Person.

Add your own phone number in the Ad Person screen.

You will then start a group FaceTime call,

including yourself and the audio of the person

you originally called, even if they haven't accepted the call yet.

It will look in the UI like the other person has joined

the group chat, but on their actual device it will still be ringing on the lock screen."

Now obviously don't do that. As 9 to 5 Mac notes, quote, the damage potential here is real. You can listen in to sound bites of any iPhone

users ongoing conversation without them even knowing that you could hear them.

Until Apple fixes the bug, it's not clear how to defend yourself against this attack

either, aside from disabling FaceTime altogether, end quote.

In response to the bug, Apple has disabled the group FaceTime feature on the server

side and some reports suggest that this has fixed the security flaw for most people.

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