A Bug in FaceTime That Allows Someone to Spy on You Without Your Knowledge

There was an issue with Apple's FaceTime app where someone could call you, and then without your knowledge, they could start listening to you like you didn't even have to answer the call. The person who discovered this bug was a 14-year-old boy named Grant Thompson. He found that he could just add his own name to the call and then he would just start listening to him, like he didn't even have to answer the call. This meant that the person who was calling him could hear him without him having to say anything, which is a very uncomfortable situation.

The worst part about this bug was that if you were to hit the power button on your phone, it would turn on your video camera, and then the person who was calling you could see you. This means that even if you didn't answer the call, but just hit the power button, the person who was calling you could still see you. This is a very bad situation, because it means that you wouldn't know that someone was watching you.

Apple has since responded to this issue by saying that protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem. They also said that their App Store review guidelines work and that apps must request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording or otherwise making a record of user activity. However, it seems like these guidelines were not strict enough, because Apple has had to take action against some developers who are violating these guidelines.

Notifying the Developers Who Violated the Guidelines

Apple has notified the developers who are in violation of these guidelines that they will take immediate action if necessary. This means that if a developer is found to be violating these guidelines, Apple will take disciplinary action against them. However, it seems like this notification should have been made before the bug was discovered, and not just as a response after it had happened.

The Discovery of the Bug

Grant Thompson, the 14-year-old boy who discovered this bug, has reportedly received compensation from Apple for his discovery. This means that Apple is taking responsibility for allowing this bug to exist in the first place, and they are compensating the person who found the issue with a gift to help fund their education.

The Impact of the Bug

This bug had a significant impact on Grant Thompson's life, because he discovered it at such a young age. It also highlights the importance of technology companies like Apple being able to protect user privacy and security. The fact that this bug was allowed to exist for so long is a disturbing reminder of the need for better oversight and accountability in the tech industry.

Apps That Can Record Your Screen Without Consent

Unfortunately, it seems like Grant Thompson's discovery is not an isolated incident. Some iPhone apps have been found to be recording users' screens without their knowledge or consent. These apps include Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, Expedia, hotels.com, Singapore Airlines, and Air Canada. This means that even if you are using these apps, you may not know that they are secretly recording your screen.

Protecting Yourself from These Apps

If you're concerned about these apps recording your screen without consent, there's one thing you can do: use a VPN. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a service that encrypts your internet traffic and hides your location. This means that even if an app is secretly recording your screen, the data will not be able to be traced back to you.

Hotspot Shield is a popular VPN service that offers a convenient and reliable way to protect yourself from apps like these. It has 30 patents for its unique private Terry VPN transport protocol, which optimizes multiple server connections and makes it stronger and faster over longer distances. All you have to do is open up the app, hit connect, and suddenly every website you visit, all of your data you send, and your location are completely hidden.

Joining the 650 Million Users

So if you're concerned about apps recording your screen without consent, join the over 650 million users who have already signed up for Hotspot Shield. Click the link in the description to get started today. Huge thanks to Anchor Free Hotspot Shield for supporting this show.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmm yes what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone that is of course unless you download something on your iPhone apparently me also this is not a document of any kind this is a painting of Alex Jones course you do that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next episode what's going on guys welcome back to front page stack of course show that gives you all these tech news one deep that is v2 and feather that is you it's great to see it man it feels it feels really really good to be back thank you for all the love on yesterday's episode for our illustrious return I'm glad you guys dig a season 7 the look the feel the music and speaking of music we need to give a couple thank-yous to a couple people that helped to make this season possible number on number ring every way our boy Randy Vasquez returned this season to do all of the music so everything you hear this season front page deck made by him the dude is a Rockstar one of the most talented people I have ever met in my life I'll leave a link to his stuff down in the description Randy we love you thank you my boy also he actually at the time of this like being posted released the full version like a full track of our theme song that you can go listen to at your leisure on his channel link that video down the description below and I can't miss him Josh Dutra who is actually we've never done this before but we hired a logo designer and Josh's we hired this season and the logo is super super dope he works really well with us we're working with him sort of independently but if you're interested you want to hire him here is his fiber page you can find him there and of course all of Josh's links will be down in the description go show both of these men some super FBT community love and let's do the news okay so a story numero uno is about samsung why did I have trouble Saints Sam it seems they have an idea that could destroy the knotch we thought Samsung I'm gonna do the whole notch thing then they started doing the knotch thing and now they're getting creative with a way to like not do it so what we're about to show you is like a future Galaxy Note design we may never see this like it's just a patent we may never ever see this out in the wild but hey a boy can dream actually this is a dream I want to wake up so no not no punch hole display no slab yup mechanism what else do they do no motorized camera lifty thingy this would allow us to get the all screen phone of our dreams well I mean it's not really my dreams maybe your dreams it's kind of interesting so instead of having the actual camera module itself on the phone or in the phone they are gonna put it in the s-pen so yes the selfie camera may be placed inside the actual stylus inside the s-pen so theoretically you could take the s-pen out and go that's the sound of camera makes and take a picture of yourself that is of course until you lose your stylus oh God could you I just had a thought in my head area region what if you lose your original s-pen how much will it cost to replace it it's got a camera in it how much is that thing gonna cost if I lost the s-pen I would just feel I don't need to take selfies I'll just buy a new phone I'll just get a new phone I mean after all that's what I did to my last house I lost the keys to the front door couldn't get in the house so I just burned it down got a new house that's a joke don't call the police hey speaking of front-facing cameras FaceTime bug remember that we were gone when that happens - thank God remember the FaceTime bug so there was a bit of an issue where someone could call you they could FaceTime you they can effectively initiate a group called they just add their own name to the call and then you would just start listening and by the start listening I mean listening to you like you didn't even have to answer the call and the person who was calling you could hear you again that's without you answering the call you don't gotta answer anything and they can just spy on you what that is it gets worse if you were to like for whatever reason hit the power button again you didn't answer the call you just hit the power button then it'll turn your video on then they can see you which is awful this is a situation where literally the best-case scenario is they see you like this you know that way you look at your phone when you don't think it's looking back and that's best-case scenario we don't we don't really want to talk about worst-case scenario now do we what is even happening okay listen the person that discovered this bug is actually a 14 year old 14 year old I said that we're a 14 year old I think I still said it weird his name is grant Thompson and Apple is actually compensating his family so they're compensating his family and giving an additional gift of love to help fund grants tuition now we don't know how much money they gave the family but like my guess is like probably a couple bucks and a pack of gum listen I kid I kid they probably gave him a bunch money probably not as much money as they give me huh am i right you know cuz Jon Prosser paid Apple she'll oh hey speaking of being a paid Apple shill I'm now going to say something negative about them I got to keep you on your toes either pay them cause they're not paying them wait are they paying them or they're not paying them for sake apparently some iPhone apps have been recording your screen without you knowing some of the apps on this list include Abercrombie cromby Abercrombie and Fitch haven't heard of them since seventh grade Hollister oh I haven't heard of them since I'm good either Expedia hotels.com Singapore Airlines Air Canada I'm sure there's others but for now that's what we got for you oh man it's a good thing I don't have any of those apps on my phone other than hotels com Shh none of these apps tell you that they're doing this they said complete secret you don't know what's happening and them Yanks was that too harsh no I know wasn't too harsh for them and of course Apple has come out and responded to this they said protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem our App Store review guidelines work fire that apps request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording logging or otherwise making a record of user activity this is the best part you ready for the best part here's the best part we have notified the developers that are in violation of these strict privacy terms and guidelines apparently not strict enough and we will take immediate action if necessary no apples off with your immediate immediate action should have been before you made that statement you don't go hey stop that if you do it we're gonna have to do something immediately you're not doing nothing immediately you're blending them now hey that's bed to punish them punish them immediate action should not have been just words to reporters and say hey this is what we say about this thing no get don't stop it this is not okay this is not okay if you've ever been looking up your favorite music and suddenly you see this then you should probably hop on the VPN train before you get left at the station baby and there is no better way to get into VPNs and our friends over at hotspot shield hotspot Shield is one of the most convenient reliable VPNs I have ever had the pleasure of using they got 30 patents a unique private Terry VPN transport protocol that optimizes multiple server connections that are stronger and faster over longer distances you just open up the app hit connect and all of a sudden every website you visit all of the data you send and your location is completely 100% hidden they never gonna find you all of course on hotspot shield's blazing network of thousands of servers across the whole world this is your gateway to truly accessing the internet with no borders so what do you say you hopped on this train join the over 650 million other users across the globe yeah it's a lot of people on train you can click the link in the description to get started today of course huge thanks to anchor free hotspot shield for supporting this show that's the show hopefully you like to you learn something if you did hit that like button be hate my stupid face hit the dislike button if you're new here subscribe and I will see you guys mananamm yes what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone that is of course unless you download something on your iPhone apparently me also this is not a document of any kind this is a painting of Alex Jones course you do that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next episode what's going on guys welcome back to front page stack of course show that gives you all these tech news one deep that is v2 and feather that is you it's great to see it man it feels it feels really really good to be back thank you for all the love on yesterday's episode for our illustrious return I'm glad you guys dig a season 7 the look the feel the music and speaking of music we need to give a couple thank-yous to a couple people that helped to make this season possible number on number ring every way our boy Randy Vasquez returned this season to do all of the music so everything you hear this season front page deck made by him the dude is a Rockstar one of the most talented people I have ever met in my life I'll leave a link to his stuff down in the description Randy we love you thank you my boy also he actually at the time of this like being posted released the full version like a full track of our theme song that you can go listen to at your leisure on his channel link that video down the description below and I can't miss him Josh Dutra who is actually we've never done this before but we hired a logo designer and Josh's we hired this season and the logo is super super dope he works really well with us we're working with him sort of independently but if you're interested you want to hire him here is his fiber page you can find him there and of course all of Josh's links will be down in the description go show both of these men some super FBT community love and let's do the news okay so a story numero uno is about samsung why did I have trouble Saints Sam it seems they have an idea that could destroy the knotch we thought Samsung I'm gonna do the whole notch thing then they started doing the knotch thing and now they're getting creative with a way to like not do it so what we're about to show you is like a future Galaxy Note design we may never see this like it's just a patent we may never ever see this out in the wild but hey a boy can dream actually this is a dream I want to wake up so no not no punch hole display no slab yup mechanism what else do they do no motorized camera lifty thingy this would allow us to get the all screen phone of our dreams well I mean it's not really my dreams maybe your dreams it's kind of interesting so instead of having the actual camera module itself on the phone or in the phone they are gonna put it in the s-pen so yes the selfie camera may be placed inside the actual stylus inside the s-pen so theoretically you could take the s-pen out and go that's the sound of camera makes and take a picture of yourself that is of course until you lose your stylus oh God could you I just had a thought in my head area region what if you lose your original s-pen how much will it cost to replace it it's got a camera in it how much is that thing gonna cost if I lost the s-pen I would just feel I don't need to take selfies I'll just buy a new phone I'll just get a new phone I mean after all that's what I did to my last house I lost the keys to the front door couldn't get in the house so I just burned it down got a new house that's a joke don't call the police hey speaking of front-facing cameras FaceTime bug remember that we were gone when that happens - thank God remember the FaceTime bug so there was a bit of an issue where someone could call you they could FaceTime you they can effectively initiate a group called they just add their own name to the call and then you would just start listening and by the start listening I mean listening to you like you didn't even have to answer the call and the person who was calling you could hear you again that's without you answering the call you don't gotta answer anything and they can just spy on you what that is it gets worse if you were to like for whatever reason hit the power button again you didn't answer the call you just hit the power button then it'll turn your video on then they can see you which is awful this is a situation where literally the best-case scenario is they see you like this you know that way you look at your phone when you don't think it's looking back and that's best-case scenario we don't we don't really want to talk about worst-case scenario now do we what is even happening okay listen the person that discovered this bug is actually a 14 year old 14 year old I said that we're a 14 year old I think I still said it weird his name is grant Thompson and Apple is actually compensating his family so they're compensating his family and giving an additional gift of love to help fund grants tuition now we don't know how much money they gave the family but like my guess is like probably a couple bucks and a pack of gum listen I kid I kid they probably gave him a bunch money probably not as much money as they give me huh am i right you know cuz Jon Prosser paid Apple she'll oh hey speaking of being a paid Apple shill I'm now going to say something negative about them I got to keep you on your toes either pay them cause they're not paying them wait are they paying them or they're not paying them for sake apparently some iPhone apps have been recording your screen without you knowing some of the apps on this list include Abercrombie cromby Abercrombie and Fitch haven't heard of them since seventh grade Hollister oh I haven't heard of them since I'm good either Expedia hotels.com Singapore Airlines Air Canada I'm sure there's others but for now that's what we got for you oh man it's a good thing I don't have any of those apps on my phone other than hotels com Shh none of these apps tell you that they're doing this they said complete secret you don't know what's happening and them Yanks was that too harsh no I know wasn't too harsh for them and of course Apple has come out and responded to this they said protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem our App Store review guidelines work fire that apps request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording logging or otherwise making a record of user activity this is the best part you ready for the best part here's the best part we have notified the developers that are in violation of these strict privacy terms and guidelines apparently not strict enough and we will take immediate action if necessary no apples off with your immediate immediate action should have been before you made that statement you don't go hey stop that if you do it we're gonna have to do something immediately you're not doing nothing immediately you're blending them now hey that's bed to punish them punish them immediate action should not have been just words to reporters and say hey this is what we say about this thing no get don't stop it this is not okay this is not okay if you've ever been looking up your favorite music and suddenly you see this then you should probably hop on the VPN train before you get left at the station baby and there is no better way to get into VPNs and our friends over at hotspot shield hotspot Shield is one of the most convenient reliable VPNs I have ever had the pleasure of using they got 30 patents a unique private Terry VPN transport protocol that optimizes multiple server connections that are stronger and faster over longer distances you just open up the app hit connect and all of a sudden every website you visit all of the data you send and your location is completely 100% hidden they never gonna find you all of course on hotspot shield's blazing network of thousands of servers across the whole world this is your gateway to truly accessing the internet with no borders so what do you say you hopped on this train join the over 650 million other users across the globe yeah it's a lot of people on train you can click the link in the description to get started today of course huge thanks to anchor free hotspot shield for supporting this show that's the show hopefully you like to you learn something if you did hit that like button be hate my stupid face hit the dislike button if you're new here subscribe and I will see you guys manana\n"