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There is very little IPC that is allowed for apps that do not share a development team on iOS.
What stops the app from opening a link in Safari to trackmyshit.com/uuid-uuid-uuid-uuid that closes itself.
I don't understand why internet access isn't opt-in for apps. Preventing exfiltration would prevent much of this harm, and most apps don't have any need to access the internet in the first place. Why am I creating a GE account to read my blood pressure? At least I know it's taking advantage of me. But this is clearly abusive behavior
Better yet, a tool like Little Snitch should be built into the OS. Give me a detailed log of every network requests, to which domains, with what data.
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100% of users have legitimate reasons to block internet access for some apps. If internet access wasn't granted by default, a lot more apps would function without it. Many other apps wouldn't exist at all, because their only reason to exist is to spy on users.
Not going to lie, it would be an absolute hell to develop an app that's actually used without getting crash/analytics.
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> most apps don't have any need to access the internet in the first place Citation needed. Looking through my phone the vast majority of third party apps I have installed obviously require internet access: - Social media - Travel (rideshare/airlines/hotels) - Streaming - Finance (credit cards/banks) - Shopping Not counting built-in apps like the calculator I'd estimate 80-90% of the apps I have installed require inte…
It's a selection bias issue. The categories you have listed are essentially web services wrapped in an app shell. Of course they need the internet. Consider these examples: - Photo/Video editors - Snapsheed, Lightroom, Video trimmers etc. - Document readers & scanners - PDF viewers, e-readers, OCR scanners - Note taking - Obsidian - File/Password managers - Authenticators etc. - Single player games - Chess, puzzles e…
PDF viewers (like GoodReader) can download a PDF from a URL, or read it from a network drive.
Obsidian has functions that need internet access (e.g., connecting to the Obsidian sync servers, installing community plugins).
Password managers often have a sync feature.
A video player may be able to play files hosted on remote servers or network drives.
They should be useable without an internet connection, but it's entirely reasonable for them to request permissions for network access.
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> There is very little IPC I am not familiar with iOS internals, but does "very little IPC" mean "zero IPC"? Because if we are talking IPC in the context of bypassing permission checks, I imagine, 'very little' doesn't cut it?
I said "very little" because someone is probably going to be like "oh well you can have app A start allocating a bunch of memory and then app B gets a memory warning and this passes 1 bit of information"
Yeah what's worse... I have a LG modern TV. Smart shit. I also use a Linux install on a NUC. HDMI. For some godsdamned reason, the TV was able to initiate an IP bridge with the Linux NUC and get an IP address on my network. Nobody typed it in the TV. And I'm unsure how it did so itself. What I do know is that Mikrotik allows DHCP-server blocks of wildcard MAC addresses. Blocked the whole fucking 24 bits of their allo…
This would be quite the scandal if you can substantiate/document it. People always say, "jUsT dO nOt CoNnEcT your TV to you WiFi" which is asinine. People say that theoretically TVs can get an internet connection through HDMI, but apparently none are actually doing so. The only solution I suggest is physically removing WiFi cards from the guts before turning on.
Why is not connecting your TV to wifi asinine? Generally works fine but I suppose there are rumors that some TVs scan for open networks and connect to them automatically.
> The only solution I suggest is physically removing WiFi cards from the guts before turning on.
It's going to be very unusual to find a TV using removable PC components like wifi cards. Another option is to connect it to your network but block it from the internet
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Not going to lie, it would be an absolute hell to develop an app that's actually used without getting crash/analytics.
Sounds like normal development up until ten years ago. Somehow we managed.
If you wanna go further, 20 years ago we didn’t have that much of distribution, users, or differences in software/hardware. Shipping speeds were also much slower.
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Not going to lie, it would be an absolute hell to develop an app that's actually used without getting crash/analytics.
We do it. We give the user the option to export debugging information and send it to us.
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Are there legitimate reasons why an App should know I have installed?
E.g if gmail knows that you have maps or chrome it can deep link you into a particular view instead of opening safari.
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100% of users have legitimate reasons to block internet access for some apps. If internet access wasn't granted by default, a lot more apps would function without it. Many other apps wouldn't exist at all, because their only reason to exist is to spy on users.
Not going to lie, it would be an absolute hell to develop an app that's actually used without getting crash/analytics.