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Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

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Re: Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

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Does this apply even for iframes, or not?

Generally no - cross origin iframes don't allow camera/audio by default. Even if the toplevel site allows it (via https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLIFrameE...), user still needs to grant permissions to toplevel site. Of course you can still use window.open and top.location.href in the iframe and use the same trick as in the article.

Re: Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

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Is this understood to be new? I think I got hit with this quite a long time ago. (As in during the pandemic -- long ago in vuln times.) I am willing to discuss it, off the record, if someone provides their signal information.

Just throw it in an anonymous pastebin and give us a link

Re: Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

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Can someone describe the feature that this is used for? I struggle to think of any valid reason for automatic joining with audio/video like that.

I would say it's to reduce friction - only grant permission once, rather than every time you join a jitsi meeting.
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