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Legit question. ChatGPT isn't super helpful here since it agrees with everything when I'm really looking for someone to say why this isn't really feasible in the real world.
Can you see in the Play store before installing an app exactly which other apps it's allowed to talk to? Can you see it on your phone and override?
1. download the APK from a mirror site
2. disassemble it to get the android manifest
3. inspect the android manifest to check for the things the blog post discusses
Can windows apps (not installed from the MS store) enumerate through the window titles of all open windows? How hard would it be for an app to monitor all of your web traffic based on the title alone? Legit question. ChatGPT isn't super helpful here since it agrees with everything when I'm really looking for someone to say why this isn't really feasible in the real world.
Can windows apps (not installed from the MS store) enumerate through the window titles of all open windows? How hard would it be for an app to monitor all of your web traffic based on the title alone? Legit question. ChatGPT isn't super helpful here since it agrees with everything when I'm really looking for someone to say why this isn't really feasible in the real world.
Most windows apps aren't sandboxed, so them being able to grab window titles is the least of your worries. Any program can steal your login sessions and passwords if they wanted to. https://xkcd.com/1200/
Can windows apps (not installed from the MS store) enumerate through the window titles of all open windows? How hard would it be for an app to monitor all of your web traffic based on the title alone? Legit question. ChatGPT isn't super helpful here since it agrees with everything when I'm really looking for someone to say why this isn't really feasible in the real world.
This prompt got me some mostly looks OK Python
> Can you make a simple windows program that will get all the window titles from active programs running
Just wow. I assumed that Google patched this few years back but guess they left a few backdoors.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most windows apps aren't sandboxed, so them being able to grab window titles is the least of your worries. Any program can steal your login sessions and passwords if they wanted to. https://xkcd.com/1200/
Are you essentially discussing like a keylogger? I can't imagine windows intentionally keeps the plaintext password anywhere longer than it needs to be.
Why would browser need to enumerate the installed apps?
Why?!
Can windows apps (not installed from the MS store) enumerate through the window titles of all open windows? How hard would it be for an app to monitor all of your web traffic based on the title alone? Legit question. ChatGPT isn't super helpful here since it agrees with everything when I'm really looking for someone to say why this isn't really feasible in the real world.
This is at least true for Windows and most traditional (X11 at least) *nix systems.
That is one thing I think Android got right... by default it runs every application as a different user. That means different home folders and no visibility into other apps.