Apple gave Uber app 'unprecedented' access to backdoor that can record screens

Posted by rising-sky on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:27PM
from the businessinsider.com dept.

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-iphone-app-secret-access-sensitive-apple-features-2017-10

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Re:Apple gave Uber app 'unprecedented' access to backdoor th... by eridius on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:41PM (#15413418)

This was previously submitted using a Gizmodo article. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15411533

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Re:Apple gave Uber app 'unprecedented' access to backdoor th... by applecorruption on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:57AM (#15415585)

Does this apple's corruption suprise anybody? Apple, google and Facebook are corrupted to the core!

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Re:Apple gave Uber app 'unprecedented' access to backdoor th... by dreit1 on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:20AM (#15414601)

Meh. Appsee lets you record user screens without any sort of backdoor.

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Re:Apple gave Uber app 'unprecedented' access to backdoor th... by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Friday October 06, 2017 @08:45AM (#15416348)

If you had read the article, you’d know that Uber’s iOS app had special privileges to access the device’s framebuffer while being in the background, i.e. it could record whatever was on the screen even if it was another app. Appsee is analytics that only records the app it is integrated in.

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