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Prevent screenshots

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Screenshots of the app can be taken and its content is not hidden in recent apps preview, this poses a huge security risk and protection should be mandatory or at least optional but enabled by default. Please add Android’s FLAG_SECURE and enable it by default.

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:7
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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vurpocommented, Feb 27, 2020

I don’t know if this would be useful or wanted by most. What kind of security risk does it pose that screenshots can be taken of the app? You’re still not preventing anyone from copying messages or other information out of the app.

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bmartycommented, Feb 29, 2020

Yes, I globally agree with you. If user enables the setting it’s their choice. Also we are not always sure that we can trust the system, or even trust that our code has no security issue. Else why using an encrypted database to cache data, already saved to the application private storage area?

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