28-10-2017 00:37 via technocracy.news

With User Permission, iPhone Apps Can Take Secret Pictures And Videos

Whenever you give iPhone apps permission to access your camera, the app can surreptitiously take pictures and videos of you as long as the app is in the foreground, a security researcher warned on Wednesday.
Felix Krause, who recently warned of the danger of malicious iPhone password popups, wrote a blog post as a sort of PSA for iPhone users. To be clear, this is not a bug, but likely intended behavior.
What this means is that even if you don’t see the camera “open&rd
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