Apple kicks hacker out of iOS dev program for exploiting security flaw(theverge.com)

7 pointsby tiltvor 15 Jahren3 comments

Apple kicks hacker out of iOS dev program for exploiting security flaw

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/8/2546435/researcher-who-exposed-an-ios-app-vulnerability-loses-his-developer

2 comments

> 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.

kbanmanvor 15 Jahren

Apple 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.

MarkTraceurvor 15 Jahren

The 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!