When I saw the headline, I assumed it was a situation where someone had emailed the wrong address or only tried to contact them via Twitter. But upon reading the article I see this is a high-quality report. She was sounding alarms and emailing all the right people. It's is insane that Apple missed this.
I think at this point, we need Tim Cook to write an apology piece about how they screwed up, how this won't happen again, and who got fired.
We also need some kind of hardware indicator like a light that indicates when the mic or camera are turned on. After a blunder like this, a privacy-focused needs to rebuild trust that they take privacy seriously.
there already is one when an app is still listening to your microphone in the background, a giant red bar at the top of the screen. The difference with this bug is that the facetime call pre-initializes microphone and video to reduce the initial connection delay.
Right, I don’t want something in the software which is what happens today. I want a hardware indicator, that should in theory be harder to break or hack (and should make this kind of bug more obvious to a QA team and the general public).
I think at this point, we need Tim Cook to write an apology piece about how they screwed up, how this won't happen again, and who got fired.