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Comment by perching_aix

6 months ago

Raymond Chen's saying is about trust boundaries. That if there's no trust boundary defined, or if a defined boundary is being crossed with consent, then it is unsound to claim there being a security vulnerability (which would be a behavior that allows for crossing a trust boundary without consent).

This doesn't apply in this case, as (usermode apps') screen capturing does require permission, and applications can specifically opt-out from being captured by apps even with that permission, which Google Authenticator does have set. So a trust boundary is being violated, therefore this is a legitimate security issue by his logic.