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QuickTold: 15-year-old developer tricks Apple into approving tethering app disguised as flashlight.

Tip by Pseudonymous, Anonymous | Added 2010-07-23, 11:27 PM | 6 Replies

Status: Apple TOLD, App Store TOLD

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Status as of 06:04 AM: Apple TOLD | Microsoft TOLD | AT&T TOLD | Intel TOLD | AMD TOLD | Nvidia NOT TOLD

> Anonymous 07/24/10(Sat)02:03 No.8537 
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Oh, the Told...
> Anonymous 07/24/10(Sat)13:52 No.8541 
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Holy shit. The iPhone almost become remotely useful for about 15 seconds.

Keyword: remotely
> Anonymous 07/24/10(Sat)15:17 No.8543 
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WTF else is creeping into appstore apps????
> Anonymous 07/24/10(Sat)15:25 No.8545 
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>>8543
Welcome to the botnet!
> Anonymous 07/24/10(Sat)21:37 No.8552 
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>>8543
>>8545
Exactly, that's the real story here. Either this kid wrote some ninja polymorphic encryption shit, whilst somehow keeping the filesize small, which somehow detected and stealthed in whatever testing sandbox apple secretly use .... or apple don't actually review the API calls of any app or run it in a sandbox before they approve it at all. Yeah, I wonder which is more likely from a company that has never given a shit about security. Supposedly safe app store purchases can most likely do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING and the only "security" is that they'll eventually be pulled if they get reported. In the meantime, all the users get Told.
> Anonymous 08/10/10(Tue)02:31 No.8651 
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>>8543
lots of strange shit
I've come across a lot of spyware