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Mac Life
|January 2018
Apps can film and take pictures of you — thanks to iOS camera permissions
GOOGLE ENGINEER FELIX Krause has detailed a vulnerability in iOS that means any app with permission to use the camera on your iPhone or iPad can secretly film you or take pictures of you — whether you are aware of it or not.
The problem stems from the fact that once you give an app permission to access your camera, it can do so at any time provided that it’s in the foreground… and Krause has created a demo social networking app called watch.user, which does exactly that, to show how the potential exploit works.
This story is from the January 2018 edition of Mac Life.
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