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I'm no expert in security, but I'm guessing if you install an app on a Windows Desktop computer it can do more chaos faster and more discreetly than pixnapping can on Android.

If you use the same password on two websites, any one of the two websites can use it to log you it in the second website (if it doesn't have an extra layer of security).

On paper security is pretty weak yet in practice these attacks are not very common or easy to do.





>but I'm guessing if you install an app on a Windows Desktop computer it can do more chaos faster and more discreetly than pixnapping can on Android.

On desktop, apps aren't sandboxed. On mobile, they are. Breaking out of the sandbox is a security breach.

On desktop, people don't install an app for every fast food chain. On mobile, they do.


inb4 "graphene solves this"



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