iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes

Re:iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents ev... by m4rtink on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:47AM (#23639522)

So then why people can't run their hand inspected code on their iOS devices they own ? Why can't people run good privacy respecting GPLv3 licensed applications ?

The walled garden actually makes it harder to run software you and others can check to be sucure, instead you have to depend on some opaque QA somewhere in Apple to check that for you.

Not to mention you can't elect to use software that has features blocked by default for security reasons where you are sure it will not misuse them as you have audited the source (or even written it yourself!).

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Re:iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents ev... by Moru on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:54AM (#23639568)

That's not what iPhones are for. The android market is more for the tinkerer historically, Apple is just supposed to work the way it was intended, always was that way. Android is moving that direction too so not sure what to choose now?

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Re:iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents ev... by m4rtink on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:03PM (#23642823)

Well, I have never used Android or iOS on my primary mobile device - went directly from cell phone to Maemo on Nokia N900, then MeeGo on Nokia N9 to Sailfish OS where I am to this day, running Sailfiosh OS on supported Xperia devices.

Hopefully, with reasonably open mobile hardware (PinePhone) other open mobile OS efforts will get more traction now, as the main obstacle of mobile OS development to this day has always been closed hardware & all the crapy proprietary software bundled with it.

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