Monday, July 11, 2011

Users finds serious flaw in the video calls on Facebook

Amid the extensive media coverage that technology has made on the launch of Facebook's new feature video calling, an American comedian discovered the first major flaw of the new service. Thomas J. Kelly, which often appears on "The View", the ABC published a video on your website, showing a problem to use the new Safari browser from Apple.


According to the statement made in the video for Kelly, if you make a video call Facebook the Safari, it is likely to continue with the open call, no matter what. Even if you minimize the section, even if you close the window of Facebook, or even if you close the browser, the person who is on the other side of the call you can see and hear without difficulty. The only way to solve the problem (for now), and restart the computer.

Although Kelly treating the subject with a certain amount of humor, he warns other users that the problem is relatively serious, as your privacy can be violated, even if indirectly. Kelly also warns in the video that the problem only happens in Safari (according to him, while testing the flaw in Chrome, it shows no abnormality).

Another detail to note is that the test was done on a MacBook, and at no time did Kelly tell you whether the problem is unique to the Safari browser for Mac OS, or its corresponding version for the Microsoft Windows system has the same flaw. So far, no one from Facebook has spoken on the issue.