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Comment Re:Wait, Airpods have cell service? (Score 5, Informative) 164

No, they don't have cell service. Like an Apple AirTag, any nearby Apple device is used to send back location data anonymously. So while the AirPods themselves don't have GPS or cellular service, when the AirPods scan for nearby Bluetooth devices, they'll anonymously send their location based on location information from nearby iPhones.

Comment Love The Conspiracy Theories (Score 1) 55

TikTok was already full of conspiracy theories about this. They all claimed it affected every cell network, which wasn't true. The reports of outages for Verizon and T-Mobile were really from people trying to call AT&T customers and being unable to do so.

Folks were claiming it was a government test of an EMP. Others believing it's the Russians because Biden allowed them. And still others believing it was a test before an invasion.

Comment Re:Predictable (Score 1) 87

But the browser could, without your permission, add them to your home screen and grant them permission to access your camera, microphone, secure storage, and other browser tabs. WebKit has safeguards in place to prevent that. Other browsers may not, which is why Apple would have to put additional resources into building such requirements and it's simply not worth the investment.

Comment Re: Can we remember (Score 1, Informative) 87

And they could do malicious things without proper safeguards in place.

"The iOS system has traditionally provided support for Home Screen web apps by building directly on WebKit and its security architecture. That integration means Home Screen web apps are managed to align with the security and privacy model for native apps on iOS, including isolation of storage and enforcement of system prompts to access privacy impacting capabilities on a per-site basis.

Without this type of isolation and enforcement, malicious web apps could read data from other web apps and recapture their permissions to gain access to a user’s camera, microphone or location without a user’s consent. Browsers also could install web apps on the system without a user’s awareness and consent."

https://developer.apple.com/su...

Comment Re:Predictable (Score 2) 87

Apple's reasoning is sound. Using web apps with 3rd party browsers creates security issues because they have more access than the typical website mechanism. It would take a ton of work on their part to properly secure things to make it work and very few people use them anyways, so it's much easier and better use of their resources to simply remove such functionality.

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