If you have any of the iPhone games above, iPhone developer Storm 8 might have collected your iPhone number according to a lawsuit investigated by Boing Boing.
...the suit claims that the practice is not authorized by Apple and involves the execution of "malicious software code". Storm8 has written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game," the suit alleges. " ... Storm8, though, has no reason whatsoever to access the wireless phone numbers of the iPhones on which its games are installed."...The number farming was not disclosed to players until an acknowledgement in August that described it as a "bug." The lawsuit claims that only "very specific and specialized software code" could do so, however, and seeks injunctive relief and damages.
This follows news earlier this year that Mogo, a Swiss developer was stealing numbers, and calling their free customers to update to their paid app.
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Kick them OUT!!
I hope this company is Permanently Banned from the App Store forever, as an example to All App store developers.
It's a huge pian in the ass dealing with marketing companies calling my home #, and now for the first time, I just started getting marketing calls on my iPhone.
It could be coincidence but I do have a couple of these apps on my iPhone, which I am permanently deleting, going forth.
This is why you jb, peoples.
PriviCy PrivaCy PrivaCy
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/your-iphone-is-spying-on-you-mine-is-...
Heck, Jailbroken apps go
Heck, Jailbroken apps go through no vetting process at all. They are much more likely to invade your privacy, as apps running on a jailbroken phone have unfettered access to the system internals.
RIM, Apple and Google have an app store to minimize the damage done by abusive, renegade apps. Yeah, some crap is going to leak through - giving vendors a reason to continually upgrade and lock-down their systems.
If this story is true, Apple should kick these losers out of the app store. I'm sure Google and RIM would do the same.
This is why you jailbreak, peoples
PrivaCy
PrivaCy
PrivaCy
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/your-iphone-is-spying-on-you-mine-is-...
PrivaCY will not protect you
PrivaCY will not protect you from this. PrivaCY specifically blocks analytics from four specific companies. You need to edit your hosts file with this vendor's ip address(es), or use that newly released iPhone Firewall application (similar to Little Snitch) to really block this kind of thing.
Personally, I think this is a serious blow to Apple's arguments that their walled-garden approach protects you...they've allowed multiple spyware apps into the AppStore. Tsk tsk tsk.
It's so easy to hide stuff
It's so easy to hide stuff during the apple approval process.
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So according to most readers, Apple is evil and wrong to have a walled garden approach but then when stuff happens Apple is evil to have a walled garden as well, or Apple is evil because they didn't build their walled garden properly?
Why is it a matter of good vs
Why is it a matter of good vs evil? Apple has chosen to shove a walled garden approach down our throats, and apparently the walled garden isn't walled well enough to give us the protection it purports to provide, in fact it even allows spyware from within the garden.
I think the bulk of readers would actually just be happy if Apple gave those of us who want to open the walled garden's gate up the opportunity to do so. I can do a pretty good job of protecting my computers on my own, with a nanny telling me what I can and can't install on my device; for those who aren't so confident, stay inside the garden. Bottom line it should be a walled garden, not a locked prison.
Eh? Don't you have that already?
You already have the option of the "walled garden", with it's intrinsic limitations, or the "freedom to do what you want - good or bad".
You can be an app store user - with its benefits and limitations - you can jailbreak.
If you jailbreak, you're on your own - no one is going to support you if you screw up. And that isn't so bad, since you know what you're doing. And there isn't one iPhone or iPod model that can't be jailbroken in a matter of minutes using a simple-to-use, freely available open-source software.
We have it DESPITE Apple, not
We have it DESPITE Apple, not because of them. And if you have the latest model of the iPhone 3GS, you don't have it completely, because all it takes is one shut down, reboot, or dead battery to kill your freedom until you can get back home and tether. Apple will continue to try to stop jailbreaking in defense of its "safer" walled garden, which isn't entirely safe, is it?
Sign me up.
First time something like this had come up and I've actually had the app.
Sign me up for the class action.
I recently started receiving
I recently started receiving spam text messages from companies I never heard of. I wonder if this is from some rogue apps stealing my number and companies selling that information?
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