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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by KirinDave on Monday July 11, 2016 @04:45PM (#12074420)
Right, but what if they didn't use the UIWebView tactic and instead used custom chrome to submit the data. Couldn't they just tap it at that level?

Outside of the Android model where it does the auth for you upon request and only hands the app a token, I don't really see how you don't open yourself to this attack.

iOS really doesn't provide a way for other vendors in an inner ring of consumer trust and power to deal with this. While I'm not a fan of the decision to give full access to Pokemon Go, I didn't find it surprising that it did so on iOS and I had to make a conscious decision to "trust" Pokemon Go as part of the process.

Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by skewart on Monday July 11, 2016 @04:58PM (#12074546)
Oh yeah, for sure, there are plenty of other ways a nefarious app could scrape a user's credentials during OAuth on iOS.

If UIWebView didn't allow the app access to the DOM then it wouldn't be possible this way. But,of course, the user has no way to know how the UI is implemented.