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An American teenager discovered a gap in the "FaceTime" feature of video in Apple handsets.
The company did not reveal the size of the prize, but it would have contributed to the costs of the study of the teenager Grant Thompson, 14 years old.
Thompson discovered a vulnerability in TimeTime that allowed him to spy on group calls made using this feature.
This comes at a time when an electronics researcher has refused to inform Apple of the security vulnerability of its peripherals because of its refusal to offer him a financial reward.
The gap was discovered last month. Some Apple device users noticed that after connecting to other users via FaceTime, they could listen to their calls, even if they initially refused to receive them, which means that once you tried to contact another person, you can press all their calls. Apple received these comments with extreme caution and banned group calls on TimeTime for some time during the investigation. These warnings circulated on social networking sites without mentioning the fact that a particular person had discovered them, but Apple later revealed that Grant and his mother had warned earlier about this loophole.
Grant discovered the flaw when he used FaceTime to make group calls with his friends to discuss new ways to do it at Fortnight.
Grant and his mother sent several messages to Apple to warn them of the flaw, but the company did not respond, but it's now thanks to Grant for finding the hole.
The German electronic researcher, Linus Haines, who preferred not to detect a vulnerability in the driver, "Apple Mac OS", allows to enter the password in the user accounts.
Linus refused to disclose details after Apple refused to give him a financial reward for information.
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