Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times; Apple Was Slow to Act on FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying on iPhones
"A
bug this easy to exploit is every company’s worst security nightmare and every
spy agency, cybercriminal and stalker’s dream. In emails to Apple’s product
security team, Ms. Thompson noted that she and her son were just everyday
citizens who believed they had uncovered a flaw that could undermine national
security."
“My fear is that this
flaw could be used for nefarious purposes,” she wrote in a letter provided to
The New York Times. “Although this certainly raises privacy and security issues
for private individuals, there is the potential that this could impact national
security if, for example, government members were to fall victim to this
eavesdropping flaw."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Apple Was Slow to Act on FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying on iPhones; The New York Times, January 29, 2019
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