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		jammygit on Aug 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and upl... I find it unsettling in general that some app has the ability to do this. What are our other apps up to? How good is the sand boxing on iOS?

saagarjha on Aug 31, 2019 [–]

Sandboxing on iOS would not stop this sort of thing. Not that this would be useful on iOS, some all the libraries are combined into one file, mapped into every process, and easy to grab from a firmware image. (I guess this could be useful if you’re trying to debug something on an internal install?)

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