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A Clubhouse bug let people lurk in rooms invisibly

Enlarge (credit: Sam Whitney | Wired | Getty Images) “Basically, I'm going to keep talking to you, but I’m going to disappear," longtime security researcher Katie Moussouris told me in a private Clubhouse room in February. “We'll still be talking, but I'll be gone.” And then her avatar vanished. I was alone, or at least that's how it seemed. “That’s it," she said from the digital beyond. "That's the bug. I am a fucking ghost.” It's been more than a year since the audio social network Clubhouse debuted. In that time, its explosive growth has come with a panoply of...

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