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One does not accidentally develop a complex side-channel attack. It was a deliberate effort to circumvent user wishes. I wish google had the balls to ban apps
by dmitrygr 7y ago
One does not accidentally develop a complex side-channel attack. It was a deliberate effort to circumvent user wishes.
I wish google had the balls to ban apps that do this for a few weeks from the Play Store. That would teach them fast.
- jackewiehose 7y agoUsing ioctl() is not a complex side-channel attack. It's a legitimate (and maybe only) way to do certain things on linux. Since unity is cross platform, I could imagine they just peeked at their existing code base when implementing the android version.
- dmitrygr 7y agoExcept, according to the article, they first try the proper Android API. And then only do this thing if the api tells them they have no permission.
- jackewiehose 7y agoThat paragraph in the article isn't about Unity, it's about the "OpenX SDK" and that is indeed a very shady behavior (I guess it's right that uMatrix completely blocks all access to www.openx.com).