Loads of new apps are now built fast with AI, sometimes by one person in a weekend. Plenty are fine, but some leave what you give them (your email, photos, messages) where anyone can find it. In February a researcher reported 16 security holes, six of them critical, in one AI-built app for exam questions and grades. They exposed the details of more than 18,000 users, thousands of them students. You can’t tell by looking which apps cut corners.
The move
Give a new app as little as you can: no ID or selfies it doesn’t need, a password you don’t use anywhere else, and a no to any permission it doesn’t obviously need to work.
Practise it: Permission Panic →
Seen via ESET WeLiveSecurity, The Register