Bug su FaceTime: chi ti chiama ti ascolta e non lo sai

Disable FaceTime Right Now [Updated]

Tom McKay

GIZMODO 27.01.2019 11:05pm

Filed to: YIKES

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, discussing Group FaceTime at the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP)

A jaw-dropping flaw in Apple’s FaceTime software allows for users to eavesdrop on others while a call is still ringing, according to 9to5Mac.

The bug works by simply dialing another user, then swiping up and inserting the originating number via the “Add Person” screen before it is answered. FaceTime apparently is thus tricked into believing that a Group FaceTime conference call is occurring, transmitting audio from the recipient’s device whether or not they have accepted or rejected the call.

Gizmodo was able to replicate the bug in a matter of seconds simply by following those steps.

According to the Verge, this very serious security issue is compounded by another: While said “conference call” is happening, if the recipient hits the power or volume button to ignore the call, their device will start sending audio as well as video from its front-facing camera, again without any visual notification (though in this instance, it also activates the caller’s audio). That flaw was further confirmed by Mashable and BuzzFeed News, the latter of which noted that activating Do Not Disturb mode appears to at least block microphone access.

According to 9to5Mac, the issue is even more serious with Mac computers:

We have also replicated the problem with an iPhone calling a Mac. By default, the Mac rings for longer than a phone so it can act as a bug for an even longer duration.

Apple told BuzzFeed News in a statement that it is “aware of this issue and we have identified a fix that will be released in a software update later this week.” However, seeing as it appears as though any FaceTime user with a device that supports Group FaceTime (iOS 12.1/MacOS Mojave 10.14.1 or later) could potentially be streaming audio or video to anyone without their knowledge—and the steps required to do this are both trivial and currently making the rounds on the internet—everyone should absolutely disable FaceTime until Apple gets around to fixing this.

On an iOS device, simply navigate to the Settings application and switch the toggle on the FaceTime icon to gray. On a Mac, open the FaceTime app, then click FaceTime in the menu bar and select “Turn off FaceTime.”

Update: 1/28/2019 at 11:15 p.m. ET: According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it looks like Apple is in the process of disabling Group FaceTime features.

(https://gizmodo.com)

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Wikileaks afferma che l'indagine americana contro Julian Assange è iniziata

U.S. ramping up probe against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks says

Federal prosecutors have formally approached people in the U.S., Germany and Iceland and pressed them to testify against Assange, according to WikiLeaks.

NBC News, Jan. 23, 2019, 4:10 PM GMT+1

By Ken Dilanian

American federal prosecutors have been pressing witnesses in the U.S. and abroad to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, WikiLeaks says, offering further evidence that the Justice Department is building a criminal case against the man who leaked Democratic emails hacked by the Russians in the 2016 election.

In a new submission to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, based in Washington, WikiLeaks is urging the Justice Department to unseal the charges that appear to have been secretly filed against Assange in the Eastern District of Virginia. A mistake in a Justice Department court filing in November inadvertently suggested the existence of those charges.

"The submission reveals for the first time that U.S. federal prosecutors have in the last few months formally approached people in the United States, Germany and Iceland and pressed them to testify against Mr. Assange in return for immunity from prosecution," WikiLeaks said in a statement. "Those approached are associated with WikiLeaks' joint publications with other media about U.S. diplomacy, Guantanamo Bay and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."NOV. 17, 201801:32

The statement also suggests that the U.S. has been working with Ecuador to monitor Assange in his residence in exile at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, an assertion that former intelligence officials say is plausible. In 2017, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo declared WikiLeaks a "hostile intelligence service."

A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment, and an American lawyer for Assange referred NBC News to a lawyer in London, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The statement makes no mention of WikiLeaks' role in leaking Democratic emails that had been hacked by Russian intelligence officers as part of an effort to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the role played by WikiLeaks in that matter, court documents show, though the investigation in Virginia goes back to 2010, well before the Russian election interference campaign.

A lawyer for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which is fighting to have the Virginia case unsealed, said the secrecy around the case deprives the public of knowing whether it presents any First Amendment concerns.

"Whether the charges against Mr. Assange are made public by the district court in response to the Reporters Committee's motion, or whether they are made public as a result of separate actions being taken by Mr. Assange on his own behalf, we think the public will benefit from knowing what those charges are," said Katie Townsend, the group's legal director.

The WikiLeaks statement seeks to portray the anti-secrecy group as a journalistic organization, and raises the specter that the Trump administration is seeking to prosecute journalists for reporting on classified information.

"The Trump Administration … is clearly intent on using the prosecution of Julian Assange as an 'icebreaker' to set a dangerous precedent that would enable the prosecution of most serious media organizations, such as The New York Times, the Washington Post, AP, CNN and NBC which routinely obtain and publish information from classified sources," the statement says.

But many legal experts believe any prosecution of Assange would have to be predicated on evidence that he induced people to break the law by providing WikiLeaks with classified information. There are also longtime suspicions that WikiLeaks has been working closely with Russian intelligence.

The New York Times reported in 2016 that WikiLeaks disclosures often have benefited Russia at the expense of the West, and that WikiLeaks has not made any major disclosures that have spotlighted Russia's foibles.

The WikiLeaks twitter account, widely believed to be controlled by Assange, corresponded in 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., according to messages that have become public.

On Oct. 3, 2016, WikiLeaks wrote to Trump Jr.: "Hiya, it'd be great if you guys could comment on/push this story," attaching a quote from then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton about wanting to "just drone" Assange, according to messages made public by The Atlantic.

"Already did that earlier today," Trump Jr. responded an hour-and-a-half later. "It's amazing what she can get away with."

Trump Jr.'s lawyer said he did nothing wrong.

Ken Dilanian is a national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Michele Neubert and Rich Schapiro contributed.

(https://www.nbcnews.com)

Uropia o morte

Our eagle once proud
Soon bald and croaking
Our chants once loud
Will quiet down. Hearts broken
Your hopes always were
Airy and unreal
'Cause you try not to see
What's there for you to see

You said we didn't bleed enough
Are we bleeding enough for you now?
You said we didn't bleed enough
Are we bleeding enough for you now?
Lei-la-la-lei, Lei-la-la-lei - Uropia O Morte!

We're snakes lurching in the laurels
When you pin medals on theives
Our cause, our swords they rose
From secret fields
Are we to dance in the ashes of your hate?
And if by chance war is won
Treat it as a wake

You said we didn't bleed…

ROME, "Uropia o morte" (2019, "Le CENERI di HELIODORO"), Trisol Music Group

https://www.rome.lu/

Link originiale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y0ec2SH3dA

World Inequality Report: la "lezione" del resoconto 2018

È uscito nel giugno dello scorso anno il World Inequality Report (WIR) per il 2018, il resoconto più autorevole e aggiornato delle tendenze globali nella disuguaglianza. Ricercato, compilato e scritto da un team di economisti leaders a livello mondiale sulla disuguaglianza, presenta - con una chiarezza e un approfondimento senza pari- informazioni e analisi che sono di vitale importanza per i responsabili politici e gli studiosi di tutto il mondo.

L’argomento è uno di quelli toccati nel romanzo „Uropia, il protocollo Maynards“ ed il WIR non fa che confermare i dati sui quali le previsioni del romanzo erano costruite.

Due i dati di fatto più significativi: in primo luogo la poca o nulla rilevanza data al report dall’informazione e dai media c.d. main stream; in secondo luogo l’osservazione che in tutte le parti del mondo indistintamente la disparità di reddito e di ricchezza è continuamente cresciuta, a dispetto di una certa propaganda istituzionale e culturale che non coinvolge solo Governi e politici di professione ma anche operatori dell’intrattenimento tra i quali commentatori satirici di grande intelligenza che io pure stimo molto, ma che  per motivi che io ignoro ritrovo a ripetere che la disuguaglianza “da noi” –nel mio caso in Germania-  non aumenta anzi cala, e che tutto va bene, madama la marchesa.

Vero è che in Europa l’aumento non è così spedito come in altre parti del mondo.

Ciò non toglie che il confronto con chi sta peggio non allevia i problemi di chi si sta impoverendo a casa nostra.

"Dal 1980, la disparità di ricchezza e di reddito è aumentata rapidamente in Nord America, Cina, India e Russia, mentre è cresciuta moderatamente in Europa" (tutte le immagini immagini tratte dal WIR 2018).

"La disuguaglianza all'interno delle regioni del mondo varia notevolmente non solo per la diversa rapidità, ma anche nella sua entità.

Nel 2016, la quota del totale nazionale reddito percepito dal solo 10% che guadagna di più in una singola nazione (10% con reddito superiore) era il 37% in Europa, il 41% in Cina, il 46% in Russia, 47% negli Stati Uniti, Canada e dintorni 55% in Africa sub-sahariana, Brasile e India. In Medio Oriente, il mondo più regione diseguale secondo le nostre stime, il 10% più ricco cattura il 61% del reddito nazionale."

Allo stesso tempo viene mostrato come la disuguaglianza economica sia in gran parte determinata dalla ineguale proprietà del capitale, che può essere di proprietà privata o pubblica.

"Dal 1980 i trasferimenti molto ampi di ricchezza da pubblico a privato si sono verificati in quasi tutti i paesi, ricchi o emergenti. Mentre la ricchezza nazionale è sostanzialmente aumentata, la ricchezza pubblica è ora negativa o prossima allo zero nei paesi ricchi. Plausibilmente questo limita la capacità dei governi di affrontare la disuguaglianza; certamente, ha importanti implicazioni per la disuguaglianza della ricchezza tra gli individui.

Negli ultimi decenni, i paesi sono diventati più ricchi ma i governi sono diventati poveri."

"La combinazione di grandi privatizzazioni e l'aumento della disuguaglianza di reddito all'interno dei paesi ha alimentato l'aumento della disuguaglianza di ricchezza tra gli individui. In Russia e negli Stati Uniti, l'aumento della disuguaglianza di ricchezza è stato estremo."

Questa la conclusione del WIR:

"L'aumento della disuguaglianza di ricchezza all'interno dei paesi ha contribuito a stimolare l'aumento della disuguaglianza della ricchezza globale. Se ipotizziamo che la tendenza mondiale sia catturata dall'esperienza congiunta di Cina, Europa e Stati Uniti, la quota di ricchezza dell'1% più ricco del mondo è aumentata dal 28% al 33%, mentre la parte comandata dal 75% inferiore è oscillata intorno al 10% tra il 1980 e il 2016.

La continuazione delle passate tendenze di disuguaglianza della ricchezza vedrà la quota di ricchezza dei primi 0.1% proprietari di ricchezza globali (in un mondo rappresentato da Cina, UE e Stati Uniti) raggiungere la quota della classe media della ricchezza globale entro il 2050"

Consiglio di dare un’occhiata al Pdf disponibile sul sito del WIR, sul quale troverete ancora più differenziate e approfondite analisi, ed interessanti confronti tra macro-regioni, Paesi ed epoche

Inglese: https://wir2018.wid.world/files/download/wir2018-summary-english.pdf

Tedesco: https://wir2018.wid.world/files/download/wir2018-full-report-deutsch.pdf