Re:Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can recor...
by deathanatos on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:15AM
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I don't see how this is reasonable. I can grant needing to do the rendering on the phone, and pushing to the watch, due to resources. But why does it need access to the screen? Is the phone not capable of rendering to a buffer in memory? (Or, because that just doesn't sound plausible & given the name of the permission in the article, can iOS not separately permission access to the screen & rendering to a buffer?)
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Re:Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can recor...
by ImTheMaddest on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:31AM
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I believe the API gave you control over the framebuffer (r/w), so theoretically it would have been possible for Uber to read and store buffer data to record your screen.
Re:Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can recor...
by 908B64B197 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:58PM
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I don't know how custom the GPU on the Axx series SoC is, but it might be hooked to the screen in a very non-standard way.