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roertoday at 8:59 AM1 replyview on HN

The original issue is proposing letting the user assign the debug service to a specific interface, one of which would presumably be loopback. This article is about the proposal from a developer that it should only ever be assigned to wlan0, which would break a lot of apps.

Letting applications bypass permissions with this feature is the exact usecase they don't want to lose. If anything, I don't see them being against the original proposal possibly restricting non-loopback access, which would enhance security.


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izacustoday at 9:08 AM

It would break exactly 0 apps because none of the apps should be using this API to access your private data and phone call audio.

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