This is telling on my age, but I loved these hacks as a young teenager on early versions of iOS. Parental control existed but didn't touch all areas of the platform.
Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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Re: Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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Someone on an ATM accessing accounts other than their own is a security problem. Someone on an ATM accessing youtube is not a security problem.
Being able to display whatever you want on an ATM machine is absolutely a security problem. I could put a fake PIN prompt, a prompt to enter the card number because the reader is broken, whatever. This comment sections is blowing my mind, and is a great example of why dedicated security teams are required, in the world of software.
You're assuming they have control of a lot of the screen, and that they have access to the keypad. Or even that they can get to sites other than youtube. Please don't assume the case that makes my post the weakest.
Your mind is blown because you're reading way too much into my hypothetical.
Re: Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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Generally kids are not able to comprehend or foresee all of the consequences of their actions which is why parents and their communities set rules/restrictions for kids.
I'm curious as to the reasoning behind why someone apparently disagrees with that.
Generally humans are not able to comprehend or foresee all of the consequences of their actions…
Thus saying kids can’t preform superhuman feats isn’t an argument that they should be required to do anything.
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Both of which are forms of discovery
Sure but that's like discovering how to make pizza vs discovering how to put a frozen pizza into a microwave. You'd be generally more proud from the first one
The amount of preteens I've seen that can't even feed themselves these days without help from their mom, I'd say microwaving a pizza is an achievement.
Re: Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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To be exact, those aren't exploits of android itself, just the device it's running on. Not much of a difference in the outcome, but i guess it doesn't defeat the argument of google having good platform
This is a recent one. Whatsapp bug [1] exposed both Android and iOS few years back. And then there was MMS exploit [2] that affected close to 95% of android phones [1] https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537a... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright_(bug)
While Stagefright "affected" them, it often wasn't exploitable. Not to mention that was 5+ years ago and they've since sandboxed all codecs, mitigating potential threats from that vector in the future.
Re: Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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Are we revealing our age through exploits now? How about "using gopher on a university library terminal to access a site that launched a telnet session so you can check your out-of-state college email over the summer"?
I definitely didn't use the open dialog in Notepad to run other executables at the library.
F5 in notepad or use .LOG as first line.
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Do you think there’s a standard for “incredibly hard” that all applications need to follow? Or that it varies from one application to another depending on context?
It depends on context. There are many pieces here: 1) Cost of compromise. - For example, medical data, military secrets, and highly-personal data need a high level of security. - Something like Sudoku high scores, perhaps not so much. 2) Benefit of compromise. Some compromises net $0, and some $1M. - Something used by 4B users (like Google) has much higher potential upside than something used by 1 user. If someone ca…
If I’m reading you right, if a business had a non-critical internal system (internal network behind a strong VPN) with the potential for a CSRF attack, you wouldn’t call that a risk?
Re: Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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Says the person whose last comment is upset that their engineers have a $300k salary?
Truth must have really hurt you, if you even went through my post history. My earlier comment is guy earning 300k shouldnt say that things are cheap. My current comment is that Google does not hire the best anymore, but outsources to lowest cost bidders and results are visible -> quality suffers.
I didn’t, I just spotted your comment in the other thread.
Re: Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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What are they paying $300K for, if outsourcers are doing the work?
Probably designers who make new products (that are likely to get cancelled). While their popular cash cows are maintained by lowest bidders since it is boring / difficult.
Difficult, sometimes. Boring, no.