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now imagine a game that intercepts phone calls (because everyone totally reads the permissions sheet) and is actually able to handle 911 calls. congrats, now OP
by nunez 5y ago
now imagine a game that intercepts phone calls (because everyone totally reads the permissions sheet) and is actually able to handle 911 calls. congrats, now OP just gave an attacker their physical address, and their grandma is dead because, well, i doubt the attacker will relay the call for them.
this is a huge, huge problem and has nothing to do with Teams.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoYou would have thought app sandboxing on android would simply not allow this at all. 911 is just too critical to allow any app to interfere with it. The code path should be simple and uninterruptible.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoSomeone in another thread here said Teams itself is required by the FCC to be able to make 911 calls and that is the root of the issue. MS teams implementation clashed with the OS dialer (iiuc). Completely unacceptable on Google's part.
- nunez 5y agoI think Teams is required to take 911 calls because it incorporates Skype for Business/Lync's PBX capabilities, which makes Teams basically an office phone like Cisco Jabber. That makes me wonder if Teams on iOS can make 911 calls...