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Re:Android Q will kill clipboard manager apps in the name of... by londons_explore on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:14PM (#19409261)
Even without Internet permission there are easy ways to exfiltrate critical data.

For example, the app could just open the browser set to http://myapp.com/?secretdata=Ultramanoids_password

How are you going to stop that? Have the browser stop and ask before loading the web page?

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Re:Android Q will kill clipboard manager apps in the name of... by chopin on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:07PM (#19409543)
Wouldn't that be visible?
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Re:Android Q will kill clipboard manager apps in the name of... by londons_explore on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:14AM (#19412682)
Yes, but by then your data is already exfiltrated.

There are also a bunch of ways of doing it in non-visible ways by using API's of other apps

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