A
security issue has been identified in iOS which gives third party applications
and its developers unsolicited access to your photos.
According
to The New York Times who uncovered this issue, an application that has the
permission to use your location can also access your photos. They demonstrated
this by commissioning a developer to create a dummy app (which was not
submitted to the App Store) that popped up a notification asking the user for
location (as seen above) and when provided had complete access to the photos
stored on the device.
When
contacted, Apple declined to comment about this issue. The Verge, however, is
now reporting that this functionality is not by design and is a bug in the current
version of iOS. They have also learned that Apple is working on a fix for the
same and is likely to be bundled with fix for the other security issue that
cropped up recently, in the next version of iOS.
To
be clear, just like with the address book issue, apps having access to your
files is not something new. This happens on desktop computers all the time or
on, say, an Android smartphone infested with malware. However, considering that
Apple screens every app that goes on the App Store, we do not expect to see
such things from them, especially since this behavior clearly violates the App
Store guidelines, which states that apps that do not perform as advertised by
the developer will be rejected.
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