A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a Texas lawyer who claimed a widely-publicized security flaw in the FaceTime group video chat software on Apple Inc’s iPhones allowed someone to eavesdrop on a deposition, according to Reuters.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal in Houston on Thursday ruled that Houston attorney Larry Williams’ lawsuit failed to allege Apple knew about the defect or could have reasonably foreseen someone would eavesdrop on his call.
Full article with link to Westlaw article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Buh-bye, Larry.
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Can’t say I disagree. They didn’t knowingly allow eavesdropping.
Deceptive expectation of security, maybe.
Nobody fucking cares
AppleCynic cares. Deeply. He knows cynicism is the weak way out of any situation, but he cares extremely deeply or he wouldn’t be here day after day after day to express his cynicism.
And to counter bullshit.
Disbarment would be appropriate in this case.