Thursday, January 31, 2019

"How a teenage 'Fortnite' player found Apple's FaceTime bug — and why it was so hard to report it"

NBC:
a 14-year-old high school student in Tucson, Arizona, just wanted to chat with friends and play some "Fortnite" when he discovered a major bug in Apple's popular FaceTime feature.

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[He] brought his discovery to his mother . . . a lawyer.

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For the next week, [she] tried to notify Apple of the flaw through a variety of avenues, many of which were dead ends.