points by yubblegum 9 hours ago | 0 comments
> if that is true, you might have bigger problems than leaking the apple graph
That is certainly true, and it is equally true that that possibility places a responsibility on you to put that in a section in your readme.
So yeah, I may have a bad extension but that thing never had access to the possibly aptly named 'IntelligencePlatform' that's keeping tabs on my digital activities, until I ran your code. Correct?
[–] thomascountz 8 hours ago
[–] yubblegum 8 hours ago
My evil extension|browser may know what porn I watch or which sites I am visiting or possibly lift some bits it is not supposed to have. But it does not have access to Apple's comprehensive graph of my digital activities on their devices. Only Apple Inc. has that access.
So in fact the OP needs to put in the readme that "malicious browser extensions are a potential attack surface."
As a matter of fact, one could argue that a posting like this on Hackernews could potentially be a very sophisticated 'human engineering' effort by parties that have backdoors to browsers but have been defeated by Apple's security features.
[–] eks391 7 hours ago
This is akin to some medicine saying that if paired with another specific medicine, you won't get desired results, and you are upset that it doesn't include a warning against combining the medicine with cyanide because you might die. The pairing with cyanide is irrelevant to the medicine and is just a side effect of cyanide.
[–] thomascountz 7 hours ago
Also, small correction: any app with Full Disk Access can access this data.