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Great write up. I'm very curious whether this was a legitimate app which was unreasonably paranoid, or if it turns out he was debugging it in the first place be
by bluelightning2k 2y ago
Great write up. I'm very curious whether this was a legitimate app which was unreasonably paranoid, or if it turns out he was debugging it in the first place because it was accused of being malware.
Seems like a lot of effort to go to otherwise
- bluelightning2k 2y agoOr maybe trying to prove copyright theft, if the app itself was recompiled with different logos etc
- brycebostwick 2y agoAs best as I can tell, it’s just unreasonably paranoid — they do some very cool things with widgets that it seems like they were trying to protect (though those strategies are starting to leak out anyways) There were some interesting things in the binary still. At one point I was trying to figure out why I was looking at code that looked like it was downloading a Windows .iso; turns out it was, and it was used for a network speed test widget!
- schmidtleonard 2y agoBillGates.iso: What is my purpose? CoolWidgets.app: Your heft tests the network speed. BillGates.iso: Oh my god.
- beefnugs 2y agoIf I ran the App Store : this would be enough evidence that I would heavily investigate all of their other apps for signs of illegal and immoral activity, also adding in static infinite loop detection on all app submissions
- MintPaw 2y agoThere's lots of algorithms and patterns that use "while (1) {" And of course, you can't really know if a loop is infinite because of the halting problem.