Bug in Apple’s FaceTime lets you listen in on people you call, even if they haven’t picked up their iPhone

BATTLE FOR WORLD / CNBC | January 29, 2019: The article highlights that there’s a FaceTime bug that lets you hear through someone else’s iPhone communication, even if they have not answered your phone call. This bug is being talked about on Twitter by user Benji Mobb and reported by 9to5Mac.

And according to CNBC, they have tested it and verified that it’s a real bug. The tester placed a video call to my editor from my iPhone using Apple’s FaceTime app. Then, before he picked up, I used the menu option to add somebody else to the call and, as 9to5Mac’s directions state, I added myself to the call. Suddenly, I could hear my editor, even though he never picked up. We continued having a conversation while his phone only gave him the option to answer. There was no indication that the call had already gone through.

(BattleForWorld: This feature is well known in the intel-security community using the “add somebody else” feature in Skype, like they are doing a group chat. The one who started the group chat, who’s aware of the bug, can invite someone else from lets say the intel-security side where they remain invisible from the other users in the chat group to listen in on the Skype conversation.)

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