That's fascinating. I can definitely imagine it being used for malicious purposes. I could also see it being some gross hack in other cases. Like the developer didn't know how to use notifications...
That's fascinating. I can definitely imagine it being used for malicious purposes. I could also see it being some gross hack in other cases. Like the developer didn't know how to use notifications (like NSNotification, not NSUserNotification), so they write some data to the clipboard in one function, and read it back in another, or something dumb like that. It would be nice to separate out those types of cases if they can be detected. For something like the Fox News app, they may just be trying to take you directly to a particular story based on a URL that you might have copied from another app. (Or they might be doing something malicious - hard to say without more info.)
That's fascinating. I can definitely imagine it being used for malicious purposes. I could also see it being some gross hack in other cases. Like the developer didn't know how to use notifications (like
NSNotification, notNSUserNotification), so they write some data to the clipboard in one function, and read it back in another, or something dumb like that. It would be nice to separate out those types of cases if they can be detected. For something like the Fox News app, they may just be trying to take you directly to a particular story based on a URL that you might have copied from another app. (Or they might be doing something malicious - hard to say without more info.)