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File notification side channel leakage on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOSinoti.fyi

Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. Accepted at The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 15-19, 2026 — The Hague, Netherlands…

8 points•iamnothere•6 days ago•1 comment•
#android#linux#file#windows#side#channel#notification#leakage

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iamnothere6 days ago
This is one of those things that should be an obvious attack vector, but nobody bothered to develop it in the past because there was lower hanging fruit. The impact isn’t huge, but it does need to be addressed, eventually.

I’m not sure it deserves its own website, but at least someone’s looking at it.

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