{"id":45360,"date":"2024-10-14T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45360"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:29:01","slug":"fake-safari-link-sharing-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/fake-safari-link-sharing-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Safari Link Sharing Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-6-year-old-fake-headlines-flaw-exploitable-for-election-interference\/\">Joshua Long<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-6-year-old-fake-headlines-flaw-exploitable-for-election-interference\/\">\n<p>For nearly six years, Apple has neglected to fix a bug that enables anyone to effectively create false or misleading news headlines that appear to come from credible sources.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s Safari browser includes a feature related to link sharing. If you select (highlight) text within a Web page and then tap on the Share button, you can &ldquo;quote&rdquo; the selected portion of the page for the recipient when you share the link via Apple&rsquo;s Messages app. The feature is intended to allow users to include a direct quote from an article, embedded within the iMessage link preview.<\/p>\n<p>However, Apple does not limit the preview text selection to the contents of the page as received from the Web server&mdash;and therein lies the flaw.<\/p>\n<p>Users can type something into a page&rsquo;s search bar (or any other text field), select <em>the text they just typed,<\/em> tap Safari&rsquo;s Share button, and then tap the green-and-white Messages icon to send it to any iMessage recipient&mdash;either an individual or a group.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Long: For nearly six years, Apple has neglected to fix a bug that enables anyone to effectively create false or misleading news headlines that appear to come from credible sources. [&#8230;] Apple&rsquo;s Safari browser includes a feature related to link sharing. If you select (highlight) text within a Web page and then tap on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-10-14T18:29:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"c8ef5014-a01d-4948-839c-bd60d6b9bfe6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-14T18:29:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyO9QFKAdSUiDnL1g1rm_5g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,2095,140,31,1610,2586,30,2598,103],"class_list":["post-45360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-exploit","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-ios-18","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-safari"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45361,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45360\/revisions\/45361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}