Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?

Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by TeMPOraL on Monday October 19, 2015 @02:22AM (#10411414)

This is actually a battle that will soon merge with the primary frontline of the War Against General-Purpose Computing[0]. Windows 8 already has some things that you can't do without restarting and going through scary recovery screen with additional layers of security - in particular, installing unsigned device drivers. I predict the gap will close from both software and hardware side as Trusted Computing starts getting popular, finally sealing your fate as a leaser of computing device, not the owner.

[0] - It's not really "coming" anymore.

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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by johncolanduoni on Monday October 19, 2015 @02:40AM (#10411466)

> installing unsigned device drivers

So, probably one of the most dangerous things you can do (opening the door to rootkits and an infected BIOS) doesn't take just a click and an undistinguished warning dialog? Also, this has been around since at least Windows 7, its not evidence of us sliding down a slope.

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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by TeMPOraL on Monday October 19, 2015 @02:58AM (#10411506)

I didn't have to reboot Windows 7 machine and go through recovery interface to find obscure option that needs to be toggled and authorized in order to do so.

Yes, rebooting Windows one time to do it isn't that bad, but it's a start. I won't be surprised if the next version of Windows (next after Win10) removed that feature completely.

Forcing users to run only signed drivers is a problem because only Trusted Vendors can get proper certification (after paying proper amount of $$ to Trusted Certification Providers). Such restriction will basically kill hardware tinkering, which is one of the goals of the War on General-Purpose Computing.

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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by CamperBob2 on Monday October 19, 2015 @02:27AM (#10411423)

Agreed, it's not really fair of me to single out Apple for criticism. I was just reaching for a recent example of something that can't possibly be justified on any grounds other than the usual "For the children" and "For the OS vendor."

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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by TeMPOraL on Monday October 19, 2015 @02:36AM (#10411456)

I didn't read it as singling out Apple, just wanted to share another example that you may not have heard of and that I remember vividly, after losing some time and patience trying to program a TI Stellaris LM4F120 using a Windows 8 laptop.

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