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Alternately, inside the reality distortion field developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses is not sensitive personal information.

Turing_Machine 13y ago
Anyone who has my name can find my email address with a simple Google search. My mailing address is on all kinds of public records.
- robryan 13y ago
  "Give me a list of all registered developers email addresses" is a little harder though.
  - ptwiggens 13y ago
    What use is the list without passwords?
    - kalleboo 13y ago
      Spear phishing
    - robryan 13y ago
      Spamming them with something that may interest iOS developers.
    - bdcravens 13y ago
      Pretty sure it'd be easy to sell that list for several thousand dollars, over and over.
ptwiggens 13y ago
How are names, mailing addresses, and email addresses sensitive personal information? I would imagine that for most of the people signed up, it wouldn't be that hard to track down their name and email just from knowing the name of their app.
- CoryG89 13y ago
  Name and e-mail, I'm kinda with you. Everyone who uses my app knowing my current mailing address I look at a little bit different.
ojbyrne 13y ago
If by "reality distortion field," you mean the legal community, then yes. Having been through something similar recently, the lawyers will likely be making sure everyone involved understands the concept of PII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...
VeryVito 13y ago
One of the understood requirements of publishing an app on the App Store is that developers must provide some means for customers to contact them directly (support page, email address, etc). If you're selling apps on the app store, people can already peddle their wares to your email account. So yeah, developer's names, addresses and emails are not secrets by any means. Why would anyone buy an app from someone they had no means of identifying?
- gurkendoktor 13y ago
  iOS developers != App Store vendors. There are plenty of developers who work on other people's apps for a living.

Turing_Machine 13y ago

Anyone who has my name can find my email address with a simple Google search. My mailing address is on all kinds of public records.

robryan 13y ago
"Give me a list of all registered developers email addresses" is a little harder though.
- ptwiggens 13y ago
  What use is the list without passwords?
  - kalleboo 13y ago
    Spear phishing
  - robryan 13y ago
    Spamming them with something that may interest iOS developers.
  - bdcravens 13y ago
    Pretty sure it'd be easy to sell that list for several thousand dollars, over and over.

ptwiggens 13y ago

How are names, mailing addresses, and email addresses sensitive personal information? I would imagine that for most of the people signed up, it wouldn't be that hard to track down their name and email just from knowing the name of their app.

CoryG89 13y ago
Name and e-mail, I'm kinda with you. Everyone who uses my app knowing my current mailing address I look at a little bit different.

ojbyrne 13y ago

If by "reality distortion field," you mean the legal community, then yes. Having been through something similar recently, the lawyers will likely be making sure everyone involved understands the concept of PII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...

VeryVito 13y ago

One of the understood requirements of publishing an app on the App Store is that developers must provide some means for customers to contact them directly (support page, email address, etc). If you're selling apps on the app store, people can already peddle their wares to your email account. So yeah, developer's names, addresses and emails are not secrets by any means. Why would anyone buy an app from someone they had no means of identifying?

gurkendoktor 13y ago
iOS developers != App Store vendors. There are plenty of developers who work on other people's apps for a living.