{"id":199,"date":"2019-01-29T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/?p=199"},"modified":"2019-01-29T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:34:44","slug":"the-potentially-dangerous-facetime-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/the-potentially-dangerous-facetime-bug\/tech-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Potentially Dangerous FaceTime Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A few people on social media have found out a potentially dangerous and creepy bug that lets you listen to audio through the\u00a0<\/strong><b>recipients phone; without them even answering.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you see your iPhone ringing with a FaceTime video call, it\u2019s possible that the person calling you could listen to your microphone before you\u2019ve picked up. The bug requires you have an OS that supports Group FaceTime to work, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Whats even worse is if one of these \u201cfake\u201d conference calls is happening, if the recipient hits the power or volume button to ignore the call, it not only broadcasts audio to the ringers phone but <strong>video<\/strong> as well!<\/p>\n<p>Apple have taken a worryingly laid back approach to the situation saying how they&#8217;ll fix it &#8220;sometime in the week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now you can answer for yourself on FaceTime even if they don\u2019t answer\ud83e\udd12<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Apple?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Apple<\/a> explain this.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gr8llRKZxJ\">pic.twitter.com\/gr8llRKZxJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benji Mobb\u2122 (@BmManski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BmManski\/status\/1089967572307640325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few people on social media have found out a potentially dangerous and creepy bug that lets you listen to audio through the\u00a0recipients phone; without them even answering. In other words, if you see your iPhone ringing with a FaceTime video call, it\u2019s possible that the person calling you could listen to your microphone before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,103,7,95],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-apple","tag-bug","tag-iphone","tag-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}