You Can Also Spy On Someone?s iPhone If You Kidnap Them And Lock Them In Your Basement

Yesterday, Gizmodo ran a story about a supposed bug in iOS, specifically related to iMessage. The title:�The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Stranger?s iPhone. Essentially, Gizmodo got ahold of an iPhone that was receiving iMessages not intended for that phone. The fact that some of these messages were quasi-sexual in nature and that the phone belonged to a teenage boy made the story more salacious. But here's the thing, fear mongering aside, this "bug" is something that is so convoluted that it's almost not worth even addressing. Almost. Here's what happened: a kid was having trouble with his iPhone. His mother took that iPhone to an Apple Store. When there, an Apple Store employee screwed up. Rather than following protocol and using a test SIM to debug the phone (Apple has test SIMs in their stores for this exact purpose), he oddly used his own SIM. This essentially turned the kid's phone into the retail employee's phone. The employee probably thought this was fine since it would only be temporary while he fixed the phone. The problem ? which one has to assume he didn't realize ? is that even after you take the SIM out of the phone, the pairing leaves behind an imprint of that SIM. In this case, the iMessage account.

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