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  • LinkedIn sued over clipboard snooping iOS app activity

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    MplsP said:
    Ok, so someone is suing LinkedIn because their app reads the clipboard. Have they demonstrated harm? It’s kind of hard to win a civil suit if you can’t demonstrate harm.
    That’s the purpose of the lawsuit. The Discovery process should reveal what they are doing with that data. 

    Here is some text from the actual complaint. Pretty egregious to me. 


    The system clipboard often contains some of the most sensitive data users routinely and temporarily store on their devices. Indeed, users store information, such as photos, text messages, e-mails, cryptographic keys, or even medical records, in their device clipboards to name a few examples. And LinkedIn was surreptitiously reading it—again and again and again—without any user-triggered paste commands, and without even notifying the user. LinkedIn’s conduct, which continued for potentially years before Apple’s iOS 14 beta laid bare its existence, was particularly egregious for users with more than one Apple device.

     

    A feature on Apple iOS and MacOS devices called the Universal Clipboard allows nearby devices to share clipboard information. Thus, a photo “copied” on a Mac computer is instantly transferred to a nearby iPhone’s clipboard—but it only remains available to a user on that device for 120 seconds for security reasons.

     

    Yet the LinkedIn App doesn’t just cut the user out of the clipboard equation—it circumvents the 120 second timeout on Apple’s Universal Clipboard. Specifically, the LinkedIn App repeatedly reads the Universal Clipboard with every user keystroke, and these 'reads' are interpreted by Apple’s Universal Clipboard as a 'paste' command, which takes the temporary information in the Universal Clipboard and removes the 120 second timeout. Simply put, LinkedIn has not only been spying on its users, it has been spying on their nearby computers and other devices, and it has been circumventing Apple’s Universal Clipboard timeout policy in doing so.

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  • Apple Acoustics VP hints that Bluetooth could be holding back AirPods

    mld53amld53a
    leavingthebigg said:
    Give me a ‘U’. 
    Give me a ‘W’. 
    Give me a ‘B’. 
    What does it spell?
    UWB. 
    Ultra-Wide Beam. 
    Ultra-Wide Beam. 
    Ultra-Wide Beam. 
    Ultra-Wide Beam. 
    Ultra-Wide Beam. 
    Ultra wide BAND. Not Beam. 
    leavingthebiggMplsPwatto_cobrasphericroundaboutnowfastasleep

  • Apple TV hardware is a great example of Apple's full-stack integration, and is overlooked

    mld53amld53a
    Why can’t the app control volume like the physical remote can? That is an annoying oversight. 
    williamlondon

  • Hands on: If you have a USB-C Mac you need the RavPower GaN charger

    mld53amld53a
    What does this mean?

    ”At $45, it is also costs more than 30-percent less than Apple's as well.”
    gutengelJapheymbenz1962

  • Apple pulls iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 from sale in Germany as part of sales ban

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    k2kw said:
    radarthekat said:
    The fact Apple pulled the allegedly infringing models shows Apple’s seriousness in following through with their case against Qualcomm.  It takes integrity to willingly suffer losses along the way to following through on what you believe to be the correct course of action.   
    It shows Apple can’t get away with stealing intellectual property in All markets.   They pulled it because of their dubious legal position.
    It shows that Apple is following the German Court mandate and us obeying the law. Not because of their dubious legal position. 
    sphericwatto_cobra

  • Apple's 'For All Mankind' tops USA Today's best TV of 2021

    mld53amld53a
    "For All Mankind" -- Haven't watched it and don't plan to.

    Landing a man on the moon, despite enormous cost in energy, money and human lives, was an enormous triumph not only for the U.S. but for all of mankind:  "One tiny step for man...."  And, at the same time, the world agreed to keep space open for all without military rivalries or interventions.

    No, rewrite of that history can improve on what was accomplished there.
    The reality is far superior to any fiction.  I prefer to cherish the reality.  The hope and opportunity that it promised has shaped my life and that of others -- such as Steve Jobs who also grew up in that era where even the sky was no longer the limit.
    The reality was truly better than fiction... until it wasn't. The will to be great died in the early 70s, and it took some unbalanced and maniacally egotistical billionaire entrepreneurs 45 years to bring it back.

    But whatever you think about the past and present, FAM is an interesting and well-told story and I'm enjoying it greatly so far, even though I have terrible distrust for the creator ("Battlestar Galactica" was one of the worst f*ckups and cheats in the history of SF).
    (and it was all done with paper, pencil and slide rules (even the emergency rescue of Apollo 13) -- computers (even calculators) barely existed back then.  [...]
    Are you ignorant, or exaggerating for effect? That's false, though the computers they used certainly were primitive, and they did do a lot by hand. (In fact, computer technology was driven forward tremendously by the moon shot.)

    I am glad you are enjoying the rewrite and I trust that you are correct that it is an improvement over historical fact.  But for me, it is not a competition.  The Apollo program represents one of man's best hours and I want to cherish it and hand it down to succeeding generations just as it was without "improvement".  It wasn't just about the amazing accomplishment but also about the hope, courage, confidence and optimism for mankind that it illustrated. 

    Was I exaggerating about what they accomplished with so little (by today's standards)?  Nope!  Not a bit.  It was primarily accomplished with paper, pencil and slide rules:  computers were in their infancy back in the 60's.  A room sized computer was fed by punched cards and could not do what an iPhone does today.   But yes, the program very much advanced a number of technologies that they developed in order to do what they did.
    “The Apollo program represents one of man's best hours …”

    Let’s not forget the women who contributed as well. 



    Japhey