I just attempted to buy this app. Its already been removed from the app store. Bummer.
wow! :( I attempted to buy it but it requires iOS 4. (I have a 2G...)
Tethering on Edge probably wouldn't be the best experience anyways. =)
Handy Light: Tethering App Camouflaged as Flashlight
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Why? Does he have something else to sell? Assuming he doesn't, he's just put his effort into learning what could be a valuable skill, but now can't work on the platform (ever again?).
> Does he have something else to sell? himself. If he wants to get a regular job later /or/ if he wants to launch a product later, having his name in the headlines helps quite a lot. i don't want to say "there is no such thing as bad publicity" because there is, but in this case, enough people, I think, will feel that a tethering application is 'not evil' and that this was overall a good thing to make it a net win fo…
Just ask RTM.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Does he have something else to sell? himself. If he wants to get a regular job later /or/ if he wants to launch a product later, having his name in the headlines helps quite a lot. i don't want to say "there is no such thing as bad publicity" because there is, but in this case, enough people, I think, will feel that a tethering application is 'not evil' and that this was overall a good thing to make it a net win fo…
Just ask RTM.
Who or what is RTM? Remember The Milk?
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#44I wonder why this guy thought sacrificing his iPhone developer status was a good idea. If it gets 'remote killed', it was all for naught. Maybe he's going Droid. EDIT: He's just a kid > Hi, I'm Nick Lee, an aspiring 15-year-old web designer and programmer. I consider ...
I hope he can manifest clones of himself and get around apple's security time and time again.
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Just ask RTM.
Who or what is RTM? Remember The Milk?
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtm
aka Robert Tappan Morris. That's a name you should recognize. :-)
Re: Handy Light: Tethering App Camouflaged as Flashlight
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Apps are sandboxed. They can send and receive data over http/https at will. Location sharing is much more audited in iOS 4. Your calendar data and some address book data is not well protected. Your pictures are only accessible through the camera roll UI; apps can't slurp them.
Contacts (and in iOS 4, calendar data) are completely unprotected. Just create an instance of an AddressBook and go to town. Your pictures are only accessible through the camera roll UI... IF the developer is only using public APIs. Since we can assume that there are no public APIs that support tethering setup, we can also assume that it's still possible for them to be used in rogue apps and for developers to have ac…
You can make a perfectly fine SOCKS proxy without using any unpublished API's. It's just listening on one socket and then opening a new one based on the request.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apps are sandboxed. They can send and receive data over http/https at will. Location sharing is much more audited in iOS 4. Your calendar data and some address book data is not well protected. Your pictures are only accessible through the camera roll UI; apps can't slurp them.
Contacts (and in iOS 4, calendar data) are completely unprotected. Just create an instance of an AddressBook and go to town. Your pictures are only accessible through the camera roll UI... IF the developer is only using public APIs. Since we can assume that there are no public APIs that support tethering setup, we can also assume that it's still possible for them to be used in rogue apps and for developers to have ac…
It's possible to create a tethering app using public APIs. The APIs for HTTP/HTTPS connectivity and WiFi connectivity are public.
Apple rejects apps that use private APIs.
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I bought NetShare when it was briefly on the app store and it still works. Or at least it did last time I was at my cabin a few months ago with my 3G. If they were going to kill an app, I'd assume they would have killed that. And they didn't. Or if they claimed to have killed it then they failed. I bought this app. I'm more than willing to support the the Rebellion. I haven't actually verified that this app works as…
> I bought this app. I'm more than willing to support the the Rebellion. I haven't actually verified that this app works as demonstrated but for a dollar it's worth the risk. I have no intentions of paying another $20 a month to AT&T. As a current iOS developer, I’ve always wondered what the financial repercussions of getting pulled from the App Store would be. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple refused to pay the kid…
The kid's under 18. You need to be 18 or over to sell apps in the App Store, as per the agreement. They could choose to pull his apps, remove his account and not pay him for that reason alone.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtm aka Robert Tappan Morris. That's a name you should recognize. :-)
Nope. Give us the gist of it