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Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store [Pulled]

hahaha

Yeah this works...don't lock your phone or put it to sleep. The screen needs to remain purple. That is some hilarious stuff and I'm glad I finally get to tether.
 
If you want to search, search for Nick Lee and you'll see it at the bottom of the list.
 
So we have a guy who broke the rules and hid something from Apple.

And you're all rushing into it on the assumption that he didn't ALSO hide something from you too?

Heh...I hope that works out for you all! You may want to avoid using any passwords or credit cards while tethering with this app. Just a thought.

I mean, obviously you can't trust that Apple's approval process is gonna protect you in this case.
 
If they pull it, do I get my money back?

Also - WIFI tethering isn't even an Apple feature for the official tethering. Why can't Apple use wifi for their tethering system.
 
But surely your carrier will notice the faster downstreams/response times of a desktop browser compared to mobile Safari?

I did the O2 tethering hack a year ago and that worked a treat, but now I'm paranoid I'll get raped by Orange for this..
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7)

If you're in the dev program, just get the source to iProxy and build this yourself for free. Someone also modified iProxy to use a .pac file so you can tether an iPad.
 
Small White Car said:
\Heh...I hope that works out for you all! You may want to avoid using any passwords or credit cards while tethering with this app. Just a thought.
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+1, though it is quite exciting i wouldn't do much but some small surfing here and there. Though if you set up your own proxy and whatever it is only things between you and your computer, you'd think.

Then again, who knows.
 
Small White Car said:
So we have a guy who broke the rules and hid something from Apple.

And you're all rushing into it on the assumption that he didn't ALSO hide something from you too?

Heh...I hope that works out for you all! You may want to avoid using any passwords or credit cards while tethering with this app. Just a thought.

I mean, obviously you can't trust that Apple's approval process is gonna protect you in this case.
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But what could he hide that Apple could overlook? Obviously this little easter egg went undetected, but if there was some sort of tracking of what you do then I'm sure that'd be far more obvious.

I hope anyway.. but I won't use credit card stuff when I use this!
 
Downloaded and can also confirm it works with iPhone 4, iOS 4.0.1 and my MBP. Just remember to restore your proxy settings after you're done or the WiFi on your Mac won't work!
 
Works pretty well. Here's what I'm getting in San Francisco.
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ppc_michael said:
Man, it's such a shame. My LOLdroid phone has this built-in to the OS. LOLdroid!
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COOL STORY, BRO.

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rami.g said:
maybe Apple will use their "Remote Kill Switch"....

hmmmmm?
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They didn't use it for NetShare, what makes you think they'll use it for this?

iPhoneONLY said:
Has anyone confirmed it works? Maybe this is just a marketing ploy by the developer to sell his app??
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It works.

HiRez said:
This is a cute hack demo, which will soon be pulled, but it does illustrate the danger of downloading apps disguised as something else. How long before someone starts putting in notifications that demand you re-enter your Apple iTunes credit card info (which they then send out), or track your location, or chat clients that log your messages and scan for information, or whatever?
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Push notification alerts can not have text fields.
 
I still have the old NetShare app which works the same way, without the silly Flashlight front end. For me at least, the pain in the ass of configuring this thing and turning it on and off outweigh the benefit of free tethering. If I could live with this sort of usability nightmare I'd have bought an Android or a Blackberry.
 
rmwebs said:
Whilst its quite funny that he's done this its also worrying.

I know from experience that some of the reviewers do not check apps at all. I know because I accidentally submitted a very, very buggy build of one of my apps with a copyright logo in the icon and loading screen.

It hit the store and was in there a day before I noticed and pulled it.

Its quite worrying that someone could put anything into an App. Even something as simple as stealing contact numbers, or taking photos - its very possible and Apple obviously wouldn't know!

Chances are there are some apps out there doing it already.
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Is not it much worse than Android market? With Android, when you are installing a new application OS lists all permissions requested by this application and you confirm/grant them. This does not prevent spreading of malicious apps entirely but at least if flasglight app asked you for access to your personal data you'd know that something is wrong (and cancel the installation).
 
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