Reddit and LinkedIn caught reading iPhone clipboard data

[Jamie McKane]

Reddit and LinkedIn caught reading iPhone clipboard data

The release of the first iOS 14 beta for Apple's iPhone range has brought with it a range of new security features.

One of these is a notification for when applications attempt to read data from the user's clipboard - the memory structure where data that has been copied across or within applications is temporarily saved.

 

[KikzAzz]

“We’ve traced this to a code path that only does an equality check between the clipboard contents and the currently typed content in a text box,” said LinkedIn vice president of engineering Erran Berger.

So why does it matter to them whether the content type in a text box is equal to that in the clipboard??

 

[Spliffcat]

Always found LinkedIn to be invasive and dodgy as fek.