Notable tech leaker and app reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong has discovered a way to set other users’ photos from Facebook to her Portal smart display.
The Portal smart display has a feature called ‘Superframe’ that acts as a screensaver. The device lets users either set their own pictures from the Portal app or use images from their Facebook and Instagram.
I added Mark Zuckerberg’s Profile Picture album to my Facebook Portal’s Superframe when users are supposed to only able to add the albums that they own
I reported this to Facebook and they don't think this is a security vulnerability pic.twitter.com/6IsUpj8Nra
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 30, 2019
Wong was able to discover that she could set Mark Zuckerberg’s profile picture album as her Superframe. She also said that she reported this to Facebook’s team. She was told that Facebook does not consider this a security vulnerability.
It’s still unclear how exactly Wong pulled this off, but I haven’t been able to recreate it on my Portal device.
Source: @wongmjane Via: Fast Company
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