Comment by OptionOfT
7 days ago
Reading though this, is it correct to say that they could've done a fetch("http://localhost:<port>/id=<id>"), but then it would show up very conspicuously in the logs, and you couldn't talk to UDP ports with it?
7 days ago
Reading though this, is it correct to say that they could've done a fetch("http://localhost:<port>/id=<id>"), but then it would show up very conspicuously in the logs, and you couldn't talk to UDP ports with it?
I read this:
> Android has many flaws, but in the relevant part here, it’s specifically designed to prevent apps from doing this — from listening to local ports like localhost.
to mean that they could not do it via HTTP, and instead had to circumvent Android's privacy measures via WebRTC.