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Reddit and LinkedIn stop copying iPhone clipboards:
Reddit and LinkedIn are changing their apps to prevent them from looking at the Apple iPhone clipboard.
In a developer trial of the latest update to the phone's operating system, iOS 14, users are notified whenever an app accesses the device's copied text.
The notification exposed frequent scanning of the clipboard by apps that many users thought should not need to do so.
The two firms follow TikTok in changing their apps amid the criticism.
[...] In research published in March, Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk identified dozens of apps which they said had accessed the clipboard.
At the time Apple said it did not think it was a vulnerability.
There are legitimate reasons why an app needs clipboard access - for example, in order to share a website address with a message platform, or to grab a password from a password manager and paste it into a password-protected service.
Related:
Reddit says it's fixing code in its iOS app that copied clipboard contents
Apple iOS 14 Alerts Reveal Reddit App Is Reading User Clipboard Data
Reddit promises to stop accessing user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14
Previously:
(2020-06-28) TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data
(2020-02-27) Apple Takes Heat Over 'Vulnerable' iOS Cut-and-Paste Data
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @07:51PM (3 children)
I loaded the official SoylentNews app onto my Apple iPhone and it replaced all my bookmarks with links to social-justice websites, substituted my carefully curated collection of J-Lo porn with pictures of TMB in a dress, and used all of my Bitcoins to buy SoylentNews subscriptions for orphans.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @08:25PM
Write an email to them asking how Slashdot malware got into their app
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @08:36PM
It's funny, but in reality, I doubt TMB would like the idea of you, determined to jizz, opening up your collection and deciding to pretend it's all the same until you can go rebuild.
No, it's more likely aristarchus is photoshopped into the dress. It's always the somewhat outcast innocent bystanders that get emasculated like that.
And we can all just ignore the trans people here. You wouldn't have to photoshop the dress, but it wouldn't be funny anyway, because they might actually look hot in it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @02:10AM
What have you got against orphans?