By the way, I am the mixture of 3 and 4.So far in this topic I see
- Members discussing the issue
- Members pointing fingers
- Members with their head in the sand
- Members sidetracking the discussion
Do 2, 3, and 4 matter?
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Apple Removes Over 250 iOS Apps With Ad SDK That Collects Personal User Data
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Mate, I am totally with you, but my fear is that the app store is just too far gone when it comes to games. Developers are just so sneaky now and it's all about getting you to in app purchase. The end game is not the game anymore... The game companies have found how to perfectly monetise addiction in this online world and will take it for everything they got and in the process destroy it.
Guess what the US does with its cyber budget (pushing towards $14B) being funneled through the CIA, NSA and other departments? Either it's an utter waste of tax payer's fund or making a killing in the cyber world. LOL!
Denial of what? That it's not a serious problem? Please enlighten me why this is so serious. Cause they get my email address to spam me or that they have serial numbers of the components of my iPhone?The Denial...
Giving Apple a Free Pass....
Typical
So what's your suggestion? Move to Android, LOL
China has had access to the App Store since 2010. Major is subjective, but 2 incidents in 5 years.
My question though, was what you mean by preventing Chinese developers from submitting to other app stores. What are you specifically trying to accomplish and how does it work in a way that isn't completely absurd in the modern economy?
These apps should be banned, but doesn't sound too serious. Google likely collects more data
Source please... otherwise STOP spreading FUD. Otherwise, these comments make you sound like a blind fanboy. And how does collection of personally identifiable data NOT sound too serious?
Indeed.
This comes as no surprise. It makes me question the wisdom of Tim Cook snuggling up to China so much. Steve Jobs was much more wary, with good reason.
Agreed.
Segregation is the name of the game. For as long as China is a law unto itself, Apple must Handoff its relationship.
I automatically ignore any apps with 'extra gold'-style IAPs.
I wish there was a switch I could flip that would make all such apps invisible.
Except when Asia is a very vast continent and there is no "Asian" in this real world but Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Indian, Thai, Indonesian, Kazakhs, etc. and they can always set up a company to sell their apps with a "western" enough name. You can't avoid "Asians".
Don't act like the iPhone has been that popular in Chine for the past 5 years, the popularity is rather recent. https://www.ipglab.com/2015/01/28/by-the-numbers-a-stats-breakdown-of-apples-monster-quarter/
I get what you are saying but 2 in a row both from China, why does it seem like they can't ever do anything the proper way and everything has got to be shady.
I got a riddle for you, in which country is it cheaper to kill a pedestrian in traffic than it is to just injure them? I'll give you a hint, we talked about the country pretty recently. Click for Answer
So to be fair, Apple really should be doing more thorough job approving Apps but it is basically an impossible task. Apps + updates would take millions of full time employees to thoroughly inspect. Hopefully Apple figure out a way to at least partially automate it.
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It's also time to set up the Great Firewall of America. Screening all harmful information flowing into our great nation....
All very well telling us it has happened but what are we to do about it.
1. What apps are involved.
2. What do I need to do to protect my data? Example delete unnamed app???, change passwords, etc.
3. I have a few suspect apps. When go to support site...no longer there but asking for email address on the only page.
Any help appreciated.
Not wanting to fix blame just fix the problem. Current information is not good enough/
1. What apps are involved.
2. What do I need to do to protect my data? Example delete unnamed app???, change passwords, etc.
3. I have a few suspect apps. When go to support site...no longer there but asking for email address on the only page.
Any help appreciated.
Not wanting to fix blame just fix the problem. Current information is not good enough/
Huh. Might want to read up on news. Google was actively paid for your information by the NSA.
if Apple's approval process is not perfect all the time, then its not a good validation process.
I thought the whole point was to *Catch* apps, not let them through, then review them later "as when we see fit" after the damage is done.
imagine if all our hardware routers did that..... There's be a panic attack overnight worldwide.
Doesn't matter if its automated, and/or manual,, it doesn't seem to work in either case.
However, this just says iOS is on the war path.. Of course it would come from China... They make all the good stuff
I thought the whole point was to *Catch* apps, not let them through, then review them later "as when we see fit" after the damage is done.
imagine if all our hardware routers did that..... There's be a panic attack overnight worldwide.
Doesn't matter if its automated, and/or manual,, it doesn't seem to work in either case.
However, this just says iOS is on the war path.. Of course it would come from China... They make all the good stuff
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I'm not acting like anything. Your phrasing made it sound like China just got connected to the App Store this month and we're already seeing problems:
China has had access for years, so truncating the time period you're looking at makes your statistic look deceptively severe.
Also not true. The two you're probably thinking of were split by an American company installing root certificates and shunting your decrypted traffic to their own servers for "filtering". The Chinese may have gotten your IMEI and an email address, but Been Inc, saw your bank account-- and I don't remember any posts saying "Palo Alto. Why am I not surprised?"
Remember: world's second largest economy growing at 3 or 4 times the rate of the US. New companies and developers are coming on line at a crazy pace, many are just inexperienced.
Is there an app for this, or are you just exhibiting classic xenophobia-- take a bunch of disconnected pieces of anecdotal information about a culture you don't fully understand and weave it into a typically dark narrative that is sustained by retaining new information that fits the model and disregarding what doesn't.
China's got challenges, maybe even more than Mountain View does, but getting back to the original point: putting a wall around their App Store isn't going to make a lick of difference.
This is where the focus should be. There are bad people out there, and we rely on Apple to watch the gates. They need to step up their game. Hopefully they're able to do this without impacting the utility of applications. In the positive column, they've done a pretty good job of containing the damage.
I just wish they'd come down harder on developers of compromised applications like this-- impacting their business might help build a culture of only using trusted source. At least publish the list of applications.
Yeah! They probably think of turning American men into slaves and women into communist "wives".The Chinese government is gonna take over the world one day!
They are smart, dedicated, determined and RUTHLESS!
Typical newspaper report. What was needed is missing - they should have released the names of the affected apps first so users could first of all uninstall them, and maybe do a restore of the OS to take away all remnants and never install that app again.
For all we know, we could be carrying latent malware in our phones by virtue of some app that we know exists because of this report but don't know which is it - because of this report. I so feel that such reports are a stain on the name of reports.. a blotch.. reporting should be factual.. this seems commercial, what possible harm could have occurred if consumers were made aware of the apps affected?
For all we know, we could be carrying latent malware in our phones by virtue of some app that we know exists because of this report but don't know which is it - because of this report. I so feel that such reports are a stain on the name of reports.. a blotch.. reporting should be factual.. this seems commercial, what possible harm could have occurred if consumers were made aware of the apps affected?
No, I'm talking about a recent one where Chinese app developers decided to trust a Chinese unofficial download mirror of xCode without taking into considerations how it could affect people if it wasn't legitimate. It was more important to save an hour than to be responsible towards the people who are you customers. Turned out the unofficial mirror would compile apps with a malware and it made it to many apps in the app store including WeChat. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34311203
Here is the thing, living in Mountain View, I've got plenty of friends of many races that don't exhibit these characteristics of being totally careless in just about anything they do. I've been surrounded by other cultures all my life, so if it makes you feel better if I say that I hate careless people who only think about themselves and have little sense of responsibility when it comes to others, sure we can keep it at that.
Apologize if I offended.
You used some interesting excuses to justify your racism.
While I do think it is nice that Apple does something about privacy, they are by no means proactive (meaning doing something to prevent a certain event BEFORE it happens)...they are reactive (doing something after a certain event happens)...and possibly only because someone else found out...which by the way was apples job to begin with...you know, walled garden eden of security, because apple inspects all those apps throughly...