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I thought Apple was checking apps? How did this go through? In any sane jurisdiction exposing PII like that is illegal.
by koakuma-chan 1y ago
I thought Apple was checking apps? How did this go through? In any sane jurisdiction exposing PII like that is illegal.
- hackan 1y agonobody does a free security checkup xD not even apple
- tough 1y agofree? I thought they still had their 30% racket and wait while we review 3 months pipeline going for their walled gardens
- hackan 1y agoyeah, no. security evaluations cost a ton, and they take time. apple is doing nothing at all, just charging for being in a premium market.
- nixpulvis 1y ago"Premium" Apps on the app store are hardly much better than anywhere else.
- tough 1y agoThe "premium" presumably is the market apple's commands and nobody else's does iOS users still spend more dollars per average in apps than android ones even if android has more users i think ?
- nixpulvis 1y agoAlso true. But it's just sad to see the average quality of an app has gone way down over the years.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoDidn't cost a ton for this article's author.
- gagik_co 1y agoApple mainly checks for obvious malware API calls on device, it would really be out of its scope to check the backend security for every app ever.
- Lucasoato 1y agoI don't think the App Store provider should be blamed for a security posture that is just wrong by design. The company is responsible to guarantee a meaningful degree of security for their user data.
- efdee 1y agoRemind me what the 30% markup is for, again?
- Bud 1y ago[dead]
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoMarketing and distribution.
- efdee 1y agoWhat marketing?
- nixpulvis 1y agoThis is why Apple security theater leads people to a false sense of security. Better to make secure operating systems that inform users of bad access patterns and let the developers be free to produce. Nothing protects you from giving info to a broken backend though, so people should be more cautious and repercussions for insecure backends should be higher.