Somehow I think obviously questionable ideas like these have a positive impact.
They are most likely teaching users a lot more about privacy than all the warnings of us "paranoids" can achieve.
Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
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#32If you're an iOS app developer... The correct way to check if your app has been pirated requires two steps: 1) You must be running on a jailbroken system. Check this by trying to read from outside the sandbox. 2) Check if your app's signature is invalid. Checking this is fairly involved. Look around for code. If either of these two are false, then you've not been pirated (point (2) will be true when your app is check…
Does checking for those things slow down the load time of the app? Wouldn't that punish paid users?
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#33Apple needs to burn these people to the ground as an example to others. Pull their apps, refund their customers, and ban them from all Apple platforms for life. If Apple doesn't severely punish this sort of thing, then just what good is their fancy walled garden?
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#34The developers are calling this a "bug." https://twitter.com/keitaigoddess/status/263995697571971072 https://twitter.com/keitaigoddess/status/263995940602535936
"Bug" my arse...someone was trying to prove a point / make a statement and it bit them. Hard. They will have to do some heavy backpedaling for me to believe it was a bug. I'm a developer. Ive created bugs and fixed bugs. This is not a bug. This is a "feature".
It may well have been a "fun thing" they added in there, but never intended to release to the public. The "bug" could well have been that it was enabled in the public release.
So, it's a feature, but the bug could have been that it was unintentionally 'enabled'.
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#35It would be obviously wrong and illegal for a stranger to come into your home, secretly inventory all physical items in your possession, and then impersonate you on, say, a global TV broadcast in which you're wrongly accused of stealing things. It should also be obviously wrong and illegal for any app secretly to inventory everything in your phone and then impersonate you on a Twitter broadcast in which you're wrongl…
> Our laws, regulations, and societal norms have a long way to go before they catch up with technology.
I wouldn't say that what this app is doing is within societal norms. Just like laws, societal norms get broken, which is what happened here. The publisher will suffer consequences (both from Apple and potential customers), as they should.
Re: Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
#36The developers are calling this a "bug." https://twitter.com/keitaigoddess/status/263995697571971072 https://twitter.com/keitaigoddess/status/263995940602535936
Of course! Do you not routinely write bugs that result in your software accidentally impersonating people? It's so easy to do by mistake!
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#37Apple needs to burn these people to the ground as an example to others. Pull their apps, refund their customers, and ban them from all Apple platforms for life. If Apple doesn't severely punish this sort of thing, then just what good is their fancy walled garden?
"just what good is their fancy walled garden?"
They are or have been the most highly valued company in the world.
The walled garden is not for our benefit.
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#38Apple needs to burn these people to the ground as an example to others. Pull their apps, refund their customers, and ban them from all Apple platforms for life. If Apple doesn't severely punish this sort of thing, then just what good is their fancy walled garden?
"just what good is their fancy walled garden?" They are or have been the most highly valued company in the world. The walled garden is not for our benefit.
That is exactly what I was trying to imply. Apple and Apple fans are constantly telling us that the walled garden is four our own good. If Apple doesn't take severe action here, then they'll be all but admitting that our protection has nothing to do with it.
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#39This is so offensive. I get piracy is an issue, but how did they ever think this would be a legitimate solution? Honestly, just let the quality of your app speak for itself.
From what I understand, piracy on iOS isn't an issue. The only place where it's really significant is China. And there are two points to keep in mind there: 1. Stopping piracy of a single app in China is very unlikely to result in increased sales of that app. 2. There's no Twitter in China.
Well, what makes something an issue? There is certainly piracy on iOS... people jailbreak their phones and then pass around ipa files on the standard piracy sites.
I'd say it is similar to piracy on game consoles. It exists but you need to do something unusual to enable it, so most people don't do it.
Re: Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
#40Apple needs to burn these people to the ground as an example to others. Pull their apps, refund their customers, and ban them from all Apple platforms for life. If Apple doesn't severely punish this sort of thing, then just what good is their fancy walled garden?
Well, they've been, illegally, pursuing their own interest exactly as the people using the app without paying. I don't see anything excessive here; I'm not saying that I justify them of course.