Comments on: Prepare to freak out! iPhone developers are using apps to pass your phone number to telemarketers

By: m4tt

m4tt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:48:40 +0000

what is the point of storing the credit card info encrypted? if they have access to the data they know how to decrypted it. they wrote the software.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:55:46 +0000

@Dave-O The phone number is only one small part of the whole puzzle what about all the other personal info users might have, full contact info, CC#’s, passwords ect…

And yes this is about other app’s data possibly being available. Take a look at the big picture here not just the tiny piece in the corner.

By: Dave-O

Dave-O — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:50:05 +0000

A number of voice dialing apps send your whole addressbook to a server and a couple app developers have been reprimanded for doing so for no particular reason (it’s one of the reaons Apple cites for not approving Google Voice). This is more a problem of what this developer did with one piece of information from the global preferences (like I’m going to buy your app if you make unsolicited calls).

@Jim, what make the touch differen is that it isn’t a phone. If there’s a phone number in the global preferences for an iPhone, I wonder who this company is calling—it certainly isn’t iPod touch owners.

@Darren, I should hope that any app storing credit card data is encrypting it. Besides, this is about accessing global preferences, not data from other apps.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:43:29 +0000

Hey,
first you store all your personal data in your iphone…
contact …calendar…music, notes, msn/jabber/icq/facebook/linkedin account
browse *everything*

and later you are worried to lose just your phone number?

LOL

By: Darren Ings

Darren Ings — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:42:42 +0000

Exactly why I was worried about downloading those eWallet apps that store your Visa card from the AppStore. I was always worried about other apps getting this info.

By: m4tt

m4tt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:18:03 +0000

this now lends itself to what other info can the sdk send.
are my notes safe? are they getting my e-mail addresses?
are they sending e-mails from my addresses?
can they download and install programs that i don’t know about.
This is bad news any way you stay it.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:55:41 +0000

Alex what makes the Touch any different from the iPhone? still can connect back with WiFi.

By: pwnified

pwnified — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:39:32 +0000

Kos said “I think this is something Apple should catch in their reviews for the App Store…”

Unfortunately this is not something that apple can catch during the review process because sent data can be encrypted. Apple however should immediately plug this hole on the SDK side.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:58:40 +0000

iPod touch’s looking better huh?

By: KDC

KDC — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:16:59 +0000

Blackberry has the same thing.

http://forums.crackberry.com/showthread.php?t=696