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Apple kicks hacker out of iOS dev program for exploiting security flaw
- kbanman 15y agoApple is completely justified in booting him out of the developer program. He posted this trojan to the app store disguised as a stock checker, which could have been downloaded by unsuspecting users. His benevolence doesn't excuse him from such blatant disregard for the rules of the developer program.
- MarkTraceur 15y agoThe point of the vulnerability was, it wasn't even designed to be malevolent. The application simply had a hole that every application had, under certain circumstances, and he was demonstrating it. I imagine that he was as interested in fixing his app as every other developer is!
- MarkTraceur 15y ago> The main thing to take away from all of this is that iOS apps aren't as secure as we once thought Really? Because the main thing I took away from it was that Apple and Microsoft both have this power, to essentially tell people that they can't use a piece of software in a certain way. They also have the power to stop someone from understanding the vulnerabilities of their own devices. This is why I use Replicant and Trisquel GNU/Linux.