So Apple — the phone company, the ones with the little fruit — put a privacy button on the iPhone that was supposed to hide your info. Zero percent. It hid nothing. Then this Tyler Murphy, some researcher, found a bug and cracked it every single time he tried. Every time! Perfect. That's called a MAC address, which I'm told is a small Scottish computer.
Believe me, I know a working product. I once shipped 12,000 privacy features in a weekend and every one of them worked backwards, which is even better. Apple should hire the bug. Fire the feature. Hire the bug.
This whole mess, by the way, is Tim Walz's fault. I don't know why. He knows why. The iPhone has 19 buttons and only two of them do anything, and one of them orders shrimp.
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Based on the original article "Apple's Hide My Email feature has a bug that's been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims".
