{"id":29424,"date":"2020-07-03T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29424"},"modified":"2020-07-27T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T20:12:05","slug":"linkedin-ios-clipboard-snooping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/03\/linkedin-ios-clipboard-snooping\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn iOS Clipboard Snooping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard every keystroke. IOS 14 allows users to see each paste notification.<\/p>\n

I’m on an IPad Pro and it’s copying from the clipboard of my MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Erran Berger<\/a> (VP of Engineering):<\/p>\n

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Appreciate you raising this. We’ve traced this to a code path that only does an equality check between the clipboard contents and the currently typed content in a text box. We don’t store or transmit the clipboard contents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

fingerlocks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s an innocuous comparison of text input to the pasteboard to prevent unwanted autocorrect insertions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It doesn’t seem like iOS 14’s new pasteboard sniffing API would handle this case.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n