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Some other apps (Signal?) have also done this out of the blue, though they may have since added a UI around this. Regardless, Apple has done the right thing by putting this behind a permissions box, but the developer should be required to have some sort of explanation string of why they need this.
So just use their web site. Honest question - why do people use apps for such?
It happened to me just yesterday: “Why does X require local network access? Ugh.” A minute later “Oh, Y is also requiring network access.”
Yes, I was on a public wifi.
This may be 100% Apple’s fault, everyone here is just commenting on a photo and not confirming that they also saw the message today.
Microsoft Teams does this as well, purportedly for video calling (!?) Was there ever an explanation why the permissions are needed?
Some other apps (Signal?) have also done this out of the blue, though they may have since added a UI around this. Regardless, Apple has done the right thing by putting this behind a permissions box, but the developer should be required to have some sort of explanation string of why they need this.
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> They used to check your clipboard the whole time too. To be fair quite a lot of apps did this to enable deep links/automatically opening certain clipboard links. Every big app has changed this to no longer show the 'pasted from' notification. And it was never shown that they export those clipboard contents to homebase.
"Lots of people do it" should never be considered a legitimate excuse. Trying to use that excuse should get you kicked out of the meeting room.
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Of course you can. Look up VPN routing / split tunneling. It’s not uncommon for corporate VPNs to only route intranet traffic for instance; and LAN is usually whitelisted.
Besides corporate VPNs, typical consumer VPNs are also set up to allow LAN access. Your average joe-smoe would be annoyed if their network printer stopped working every time they turned on their VPN to watch netflix movies or whatever.
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Assuming this is iOS doesn't the native screen sharing capability handle that?
Not chromecast. My charitable guess is they're adding support for chromecasting behind feature flags/AB testing, but don't yet have it correctly enabled/disabled. There was a lot of uproar over instagram immediately using the microphone/camera constantly, when they actually just always had the API initialized to make swiping to the camera snappier.
I find the conspiracy theories more compelling, but less likely.
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Any discussion of intent is always going to be speculation. All we can think about is what such a thing would be capable of if it were somehow malicious. The first possibility that comes to my mind would be sniffing Ethernet MAC addresses because it could be done without any sort of device-specific support built in to the app. Assuming your local devices’ manufacturers are following Da Rulez, the first part of their…
You can also just take the collection of devices typically on the network, hash the MAC addresses all together, and now you have a unique identifier for a household