Comments on: iPhone App Developer caught snooping on users http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2009/11/06/iphone-app-developer-caught-snooping-on-users/ Technology news Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:03:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: DavidB http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/06/iphone-app-developer-caught-snooping-on-users/comment-page-1/#comment-226453 DavidB Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:27:07 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2009/11/06/iphone-app-developer-caught-snooping-on-users/#comment-226453 You're missing the point. That the iPhone OS can allow such a thing is troubling. You’re missing the point. That the iPhone OS can allow such a thing is troubling.

]]> By: Dave Jeyes http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/06/iphone-app-developer-caught-snooping-on-users/comment-page-1/#comment-226322 Dave Jeyes Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:04:00 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2009/11/06/iphone-app-developer-caught-snooping-on-users/#comment-226322 It's a good thing nobody would go and do such a thing as jailbreak their phone. Oh wait... It’s a good thing nobody would go and do such a thing as jailbreak their phone. Oh wait…

]]> By: Dave http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/06/iphone-app-developer-caught-snooping-on-users/comment-page-1/#comment-226302 Dave Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:09 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2009/11/06/iphone-app-developer-caught-snooping-on-users/#comment-226302 This is sloppy, sensationalist writing. You should check facts before making crazy assertions. The only way a developer can read your text messages or email messages is if you have chosen to jailbreak your phone, which presumably you did explicitly in order to circumvent the kind of protections you're complaining about. Now we'll have to hear all kinds of outraged iPhone users get incensed because you've convinced them that their personal emails might be sent to servers by "unscrupulous developers." My guess is that your original speculation is spot on: Storm8 was just trying to identify users so that they could enable game play. Apple doesn't give you any way to identify a user across devices, and this might have been a way to accomplish that, so that you don't have to set up your account separately on multiple devices. This is sloppy, sensationalist writing. You should check facts before making crazy assertions. The only way a developer can read your text messages or email messages is if you have chosen to jailbreak your phone, which presumably you did explicitly in order to circumvent the kind of protections you’re complaining about.

Now we’ll have to hear all kinds of outraged iPhone users get incensed because you’ve convinced them that their personal emails might be sent to servers by “unscrupulous developers.”

My guess is that your original speculation is spot on: Storm8 was just trying to identify users so that they could enable game play. Apple doesn’t give you any way to identify a user across devices, and this might have been a way to accomplish that, so that you don’t have to set up your account separately on multiple devices.

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