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| author | Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> | 2020-05-02 21:49:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> | 2020-05-02 21:49:53 -0400 |
| commit | 99c3c6e85c284dbc08c16358f3c06fa133ea9d7f (patch) | |
| tree | 73139412b3e0b1521e1cd29ba4d47323efb3d86d | |
| parent | b3fb979c94ccbe349fca87f8da44675ac884685b (diff) | |
add clipboard section to FAQ
| -rw-r--r-- | static/faq.html | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index 89ba4d03..7a2a1fd5 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ <li> <a href="#security-and-privacy">Security and privacy</a> <ul> + <li><a href="#clipboard">Can apps spy on the clipboard in the background + or inject content into it?</a></li> <li><a href="#hardware-identifiers">Can apps access hardware identifiers?</a></li> <li><a href="#non-hardware-identifiers">What about non-hardware identifiers?</a></li> @@ -260,6 +262,23 @@ <a href="#security-and-privacy">Security and privacy</a> </h2> + <h3 id="clipboard"> + <a href="#clipboard">Can apps spy on the clipboard in the background or inject + content into it?</a> + </h3> + + <p>As of Android 10, only the configured default input method editor (your keyboard of + choice) and the currently focused app can access the clipboard. Apps without focus + cannot access the clipboard. This is a stricter restriction than preventing apps in + the background from accessing it, since an app in the foreground or a foreground + service cannot access it, only the foreground app that's currently focused. Clipboard + managers need to be implemented by the keyboard chosen as the default by the user.</p> + + <p>GrapheneOS previously restricted background clipboard access as a much earlier and + slightly less strict implementation of this feature. It provided a toggle for users to + whitelist clipboard managers, which is no longer needed now that keyboards are + expected to provide it.</p> + <h3 id="hardware-identifiers"> <a href="#hardware-identifiers">Can apps access hardware identifiers?</a> </h3> |