Malicious Use of the HTML5 Vibrate API

Post by gcp » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

judah wrote: post #38

theg2 wrote: post #33

Windows Phone, once again safe from the dangers of the Internet standards and features!

As a side note to web developers dealing with audio: MP3 is really the "plays everywhere" audio format for HTML5 audio. Firefox was the last holdout, and they capitulated last year [1]; FF for XP and up and FF for Mac now support MP3. There are very few practical reasons not to use MP3. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4923136/why-doesnt-firefo...

Post by gcp » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

judah wrote: post #37

theg2 wrote: post #33

Windows Phone, once again safe from the dangers of the Internet standards and features!

Hahah. I just tested this on my Windows Phone, Nokia 925, and yeah, not only does it not vibrate, but it doesn't play the audio. The audio was a surprise, since it runs my HTML5 radio software just fine. I'm guessing the demo used OGG or some other audio format not supported by mobile IE.

Post by thrillgore » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

gcp wrote: post #27

thrillgore wrote: post #22

It ALWAYS needs to be an "Ask First" approach in the browser. I'm starting to have flashbacks of the days when people had music players that autoplay on websites, and how I hated that.

This gets obnoxious very quickly. Current Firefox excludes Flash from click-to-play because user were outraged against it. And note that Flash can do all of these things.

Post by avighnay » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

theg2 wrote: post #33

Windows Phone, once again safe from the dangers of the Internet standards and features!

Post by Shaanie » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 6:07 PM UTC

andyroid wrote: post #23

Udo wrote: post #2

It doesn't even have to be a website. Phone scammers have been doing stuff like this for ages with pretty low tech. A general rule of dealing with spam like this is "if the source is unknown and it's from a pretty woman or an investment firm, it's a scam". My phone's black list is quite long. Of course, HTML-based ones can reach a larger number of users with little investment, so it's reasonable to expect this will o…

How do you know if the woman on the other end is pretty? :) There's a great app for Android (in Sweden, I suppose there are similar apps for other countries) that searches digital phone registries on an incoming call and after about a second displays whatever data it has found on the incoming call screen (such as Telemarketing Company, Salesperson, etc) It also uses some form of rating system so if enough users have…