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If the app doesn't have any sensitive information, then yes. We already do this with home screen widgets today, so clearly there's no real barrier.
by throwaway894345 16d ago
If the app doesn't have any sensitive information, then yes. We already do this with home screen widgets today, so clearly there's no real barrier.
- zamalek 16d agoApps can have vulnerabilities (intentional or not). It's a contrived example, but maybe some weather app has a custom icon feature, which means you can then browse photos by opening it on the lock screen and going to that setting.
- throwaway894345 15d agoWidgets can't have vulnerabilities?
- zamalek 15d agoThey can, but scope and features increase surface area: their limited functionality intrinsically limits that.
- throwaway894345 12d agoWidgets are just apps with limited scope and surface area. There’s no reason they can’t apply this to the weather app which already has (or should have) a limited scope.