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Fwiw requires you to explicitly give it permission to record your screen. Would also require you to explicitly give it permission to use network if it needed to make any requests.

I’m super glad about this personally.

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I think op is referring to a similar attack vector used in the recently presented “triangulation exploit” wherein attackers used iOS’ stored data from its own local machine learning engine that classifies photos using object recognition and stores text from images with ocr to prioritise which photos from a victims phone had content of interest for them.

Seems a legitimate concern; unsure why op is receiving negative attention for saying so.

Precisely, although I’ll come clean and didn’t know about that exact triangulation exploit mentioned, just the fact that nicely organised historical data of all actions is there somewhere to be found. Especially if this type of software starts getting all the modern ai magic on top, this could be used by everyone as standard tooling and perhaps be a target.

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