Furthermore, itās being promoted in the āTop Chartsā while the āApp Privacyā card says they only collect email addresses.
Because Apple carefully vets all apps and that's why it must be allowed to maintain its App Store monopoly!
To be fair the app itself wasn't compromised, heck even the server wasn't breached, it was just a database open for everyone!
Everything works as it has been designed. I wonder which companies will start using this excuse after being hacked.
Thats true of the first hack, the photos. But I dont believe that is true for the 2nd, the messages.
> it was just a database open for everyone!
All good then!
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> āA legacy data storage system was compromisedā
I am always amused by corporate jargon used to cover up ineptitude.
In this case legacy data storage system = publicly accessible bucket
It's like when B737 Max crashed and Boeing blamed a "software glitch". It's about dressing the failure up as something that could randomly happen to anyone.
There was also a website posted on 4chan where you could rate member's photos against each other in terms of attractiveness.
I see many breaches and people still use the products. Even tech stuff: people knowingly using tech/dev products of people who are either sloppy, plain incompetent or both. I don't get it but here we are.
In the 80s and 90s I was positive that customers would revolt over the constant security issues and generally poor quality of Microsoft software. I donāt need to tell you that it did not happen.
True. Well, we as a company left them (in the 90s). Thats 500 people. So nothing. Still happy we did.
hard to revolt against a monopoly. the only alternative is expensive Apple gear, or (for most of the 90s-2000s) learning a deep set of skills to use the nascent linux desktop options.
We didn't revolt when tobacco companies screwed generations of people, and this is just an example of the many screwing happened in the past from big companies, I'm not positive on the fact people will revolt for privacy breaches such this one
The app provides doxxing as a service, not sure why Apple would start worrying about data breaches for such an App.
Privacy is a fundamental human right.*
*Unless your app has an IAP and is wildly popular, then we donāt mind
Privacy is a fundamental capitalist product.
Theres something that changes in the brain when it learns that everything can be translated to cash value.
It's possible, although I have zero proof, that some of the people responsible for removing apps from the App Store, agree with it. The moderation has always been bull crap and recourse is little if any.
I don't know, but I don't want Apple exercising even more draconian control over what apps I have on my Apple devices.
If I want to use an app with a horrendous security track record, I should be able to. See also: the plethora of other popular apps with horrendous security track records.
So, be careful what you ask for.
The same reason that Microsoft products are still in the App Store after so many breaches. Because having a security breach is not part of the App Store equation.
Couldn't one ask the same question about Facebook?
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