Why I didn’t catch any Pokemon today
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Summary
Trail of Bits investigates Pokemon Go's Google account permissions: the app used an undocumented OAuthLogin scope, bypassable jailbreak detection, and silently re-enables revoked permissions.
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--- id: 2385 title: "Why I didn’t catch any Pokemon today" source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/07/11/why-i-didnt-catch-any-pokemon-today/" published_at: "2016-07-12T03:37:27Z" tags: ["mobile-security", "privacy", "oauth", "trail-of-bits", "pokemon-go", "permissions"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2385" lang: en --- # Why I didn’t catch any Pokemon today ## Summary Trail of Bits investigates Pokemon Go's Google account permissions: the app used an undocumented OAuthLogin scope, bypassable jailbreak detection, and silently re-enables revoked permissions. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com - **Published:** 2016-07-12T03:37:27Z - **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/07/11/why-i-didnt-catch-any-pokemon-today/ - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2385