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"Do you think the App Store clerks are combing through source code to look for security issues? Ha!" Apple sometimes rejects applications for using private API
by jsz0 17y ago
"Do you think the App Store clerks are combing through source code to look for security issues? Ha!"
Apple sometimes rejects applications for using private APIs they must be checking at some level. I'm not sure how much damage you could do using public APIs. We haven't seen any iPhone App Store malware so whatever they're doing must be working. It's hard to believe no one has tried to slip something in over the last 2 years. In my personal experience with the iPhone I cannot recall a third party App Store application locking up my phone, crashing the OS, or otherwise preventing me from taking an incoming phone call. Either iPhone developers are being incredibly careful, Apple's App Store policies are working, or I'm very lucky.
- maxklein 17y agoThat's because you pay $100 to get in and if you do this once, you will get kicked off immediately. There is no profit in malware. It's tough to get the app in, and should you succeed, the profit will likely be less than the $100 you spent getting in.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoPlus, as I pointed out elsewhere in the thread: Apple can remotely disable your malware app after it's identified, they can publicly shame you, and they may even be able to sic the cops on you via the paper trail that you used to register as a developer.
- cmelbye 17y agoOh yeah, they'd easily be able to. They're incredibly strict on the paperwork when you're registering. My account was frozen until I mailed in personal identification due to a minor discrepancy in the name that I used for the billing address.
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