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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be fairly trivial to create a phishing iPhone application (even one that got accepted to the App Store?) My und
by jkincaid 17y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be fairly trivial to create a phishing iPhone application (even one that got accepted to the App Store?) My understanding is that nobody is combing through your code line by line, so you could sneak something in there that wasn't activated until after the app was accepted, right?
- zmimon 17y agoThe app would have to be signed by someone who presumably would have paid the $99 to get the developer account with Apple and thus there would be a way to trace (somehow) the app to some real person. Now, the identity used to get the account could be faked, but that's no longer trivial, assuming Apple has done things properly. I don't quite understand however why this does not also apply to the Android app market - surely whoever put this up there has a known identity. If not, the whole point of the market place is undermined. All this has no bearing on the "evilness" factor - Apple's market place is evil because it is a self-enforced monopoly. The Android market place could have policies controlling their apps ten times as fascist as Apple's and they would not be as evil, because we can always go elsewhere (and maybe will, if this continues to be an issue).