<story><title>Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-disables-walkie-talkie-app-due-to-vulnerability-that-could-allow-iphone-eavesdropping/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve found that it&amp;#x27;s pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here&amp;#x27;s how it works.&lt;p&gt;1- It&amp;#x27;s very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically.&lt;p&gt;2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have &amp;quot;Repeated Calls&amp;quot; enabled, which lets repeat FaceTime calls break through Do Not Disturb. Neat!&lt;p&gt;3- Now they are frustrated and want to throw their phone in a bucket of water to shut it up. The only way to block you is now to get your &amp;quot;info&amp;quot; in the recent callers list, scroll down and hit the &amp;quot;Block this caller&amp;quot; option. However the constant stream of incoming FaceTime calls takes over the UI every couple seconds.&lt;p&gt;As they fiddle with their phone trying to navigate to your info and&amp;#x2F;or hit decline, eventually they inadvertently hit accept, and you see their face.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-disables-walkie-talkie-app-due-to-vulnerability-that-could-allow-iphone-eavesdropping/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donkeyd</author><text>I have to say, I think it&amp;#x27;s great that Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t try to do damage control on their reputation, but instead does damage control toward the customer. They could&amp;#x27;ve kept the service working, created a fix and silently pushed it, but they didn&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>