macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR codes?

Re:macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR ... by fishywang on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @01:05PM (#33098224)

how can you be so confident that it's "closed"? the last time apple announced the high protection mode for state sponsored targets in new ios (whatever it's called), they disable all auto previews in that mode. if they are as confident as you are that it's "closed" that doesn't seem necessary?

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Re:macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR ... by lilyball on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:18PM (#33100071)

Disabling link previews in high protection mode is more likely to be a combination of not issuing any network requests that could accidentally leak your IP, and being able to see the full URL so link previews can't pretend to be a different site to trick you into clicking on it.

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Re:macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR ... by grooot on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @01:07PM (#33098255)

I’m confident that it’s closed because they claimed to have closed it.

As for the high protection mode - of course that reduces the attack surface.

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Re:macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR ... by DNied on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:17PM (#33099209)

If this forum were to live up to its name, you would be laughed out of here after that comment.

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