• Martin@feddit.nu
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    1 year ago

    Clickbaity headline to scare you for no reason with an easily detectable behavior. If a white box suddenly appears on top of all my other apps I would get really suspicious and start to uninstall apps until it went away.

    That says, I do agree with the conclusion that granting permission to draw over other apps is dangerous.

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      1 year ago

      The author proceeds to style the overlay like a toast, making it much less obvious than the ever-present white square. I wouldn’t dismiss it so easily.

    • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Theoretically if youre on the all they could just add whatever would originally be covered by the toast

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    1 year ago

    I tested the demo app. Interestingly, the attack doesn’t work on samsung oneui 5, as mentioned in the article. Where even stock android 14 is vulnerable to this attack.