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macnn.com - 15 days ago

Developer spying on iPhone gamers?

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A California iPhone developer, Storm8, has been accused of spying on iPhone owners, according to court documents. A lawsuit was recently submitted on behalf of Washington resident Michael Turner, charging Storm8 with several violations including breaches of contract, the California Computer ...

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iPhone developer's product snoops on customer's private data: http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/06/raises.iphone.privacy.issues/ 15 days ago

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Apple Seeks New Security Head As Exploits Increase
Cult of Mac — ... Netherlands asked for $7 for each jailbroken iPhone he accessed due to weak security. Before apologizing on his Web site, the hacker left the text message: “Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s really insecure!” and asked victims to send $7 to a PayPal account. In another iPhone security concern, a California man was charged with spying on iPhone users after the state alleged his iPhone applications secretly collected phone numbers. [Via AppleInsider , CNet and MacNN ] Posted by Ed Sutherland in News | Comment on this article ...

App Developer Sued for Stealing Customers' iPhone Numbers
Switched — ... . The company maintains that the glitch has been fixed. Turner countered that a "glitch" could not lead to the collection of phone numbers and that specialized code would have to be purposely placed within the games to have that effect. Not being programmers,we can't say for certain whether or not the collecting of phone numbers was intentional, but it doesn't sound like the sort of feature that could be accidentally implemented. ...