Is this real?
https://mobile.twitter.com/fs0c131y...

OnePlus spying on its users using the clipboard app.

Can't wait for them to look through mine:
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Oh my poor sweet summer child. Not "only" one plus is doing such stuff. Have a look at this: https://security.stackexchange.com/...

There are so many companies and services dedicated to privacy invasion and data mining that it's safe to just assume your smartphone is spying on you.

Text entry, location, usage, camera, microphone.

If it's not Google, it's Facebook, or Amazon, or a random game, an in-app ad, the NSA, or the Chinese government. Doubtful? Look these up.

1984 is slowly becoming reality 😞

@ArcaneEye well according to the tweet its already out I think..
http://downloads.oneplus.net/oneplu...

@Wack yes I know it is possible. It is already being used in the following.
Truecaller: uses it to find phone numbers
Google Assistant : Uses this for contextual search from contents on screen.
SwiftKey: Copies the data into its own clipboard and stores it.

My point is that these apps have a specific action for these tasks. You can turn them off from settings. But I think this is not the case with the clipboard app..

@SoulSkrix if I remember it right, one plus tells you about it in their agb/eula and since it became "public" added the option, somewhere where no body would look for it, to dissable (or just minimize?) it.

@lunorian absolutely agree. At a previous company I worked, we had 2FA (by SMS) for login to the admin, if you weren't comming from the office ip.

@Root actually I'd say not 1984 but more a brave new world. Did you read that one too?

@bedAssDev sure there are absolutly usecases for this functionallity. Would be interesting to have a bunch of automated "test devices" which download random stuff abd do random shit including copy stuff to the clipboard and then have wireshark running to just see what data is sent.

@Wack I haven't! I might pick it up next time I'm at a bookstore.

@lunorian absolutely agree 2fa by sms is broken. Keyword: SS7 network. Still people felt save as shit.