FaceTime - Serious security issue with Beta

I just had a quick play with FaceTime and too my horror have discovered that when you go to Preferences > View Account the summary screen shows the Date of Birth and the answer to your secret question in the clear. The Account password is obscured, but by having the other information exposed, it is a trivial matter for anyone that gains access to a Mac that has been set up with FaceTime to run riot with one's iTunes and Apple Store accounts that are associated with the Apple ID.
I think I'll shy away from it for a bit.

My "to my horror" was that I received (and granted) a request from "apsd-ft.apple.com" to load perform an update, and I became mistrustful as I watched a full 12-minute load in at DSL speeds, without any other i.d. occurring. I reacted too slowly to the possibility it was a spoof and didn't truncate if quickly enough.
As a consequence this busy-beaver "upgrade" (trojan) immediately severed my TimeMachine... knowing I'd try to reconstruct a version of my MacBook Pro preceding the download; denied further reading of my boot disk to TimeMachine; made the (new) external backup drive unbootable... by that machine anyway; changed about four pages of permissions to give itself writing powers and to block attempts to see it or eliminate it; and then inserted a routine to prevent fixing permissions. Any permission fix does tons of stuff... and then at the end of the "fix" all errors are reset back to their previous "error" state favouring the trojan which rode in upon some FaceTime security breach.
As a consequence my MacBook Pro is a deer blinded in the headlights, and no backup is possible (or desirable... I don't want to over-write the last good version). I must get FaceTime out but I'm not sure what it will take to completely eliminate this little sieve-like monster.

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