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Title: Long-standing Safari bug could fuel misinformation campaigns
Post by: HCK on October 18, 2022, 04:05:10 pm
Long-standing Safari bug could fuel misinformation campaigns

The bug allowing this unorthodox exploitation to occur was originally spotted by the MacRumors website crew almost two years ago (in February 2019). In a nutshell, it boils down to an imperfection in the link-sharing feature of Safari on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch mobile devices. While allowing anyone to add a text excerpt from an arbitrary article to the iMessage link preview...
Source: Long-standing Safari bug could fuel misinformation campaigns (https://macsecurity.net/view/447-safari-bug-fake-news)