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Pokemon Go – Permissions Update

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Re: Pokemon Go – Permissions Update

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Yep, that's about right. This app is shit on iOS. I thought the App Store was supposed to have a quality review process, but this thing crashes all the time.

Haven't played it, but testing an app without any significant load would seem to be pretty different from scaling up the backend to twitter-scale in a couple of days.

Why should the app crash or hang for backend issues?

Re: Pokemon Go – Permissions Update

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A MITM proxy typically means a decrypting proxy, so you can see all the traffic, irregardless of if it's wrapped in TLS.

I thought that Google and other app writers weren't keen on blindly accepting generated certificates, and used certificate pinning. Do they really accept anyone's google.com certificates?

To follow up — someone unbundled the Android APK and confirmed that it does not use certificate pinning.

https://applidium.com/en/news/unbundling_pokemon_go/

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