Hacker Cracks Apple’s In-App Purchasing System
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Hacker Cracks Apple’s In-App Purchasing System
9to5Mac reports that a Russian hacker has figured out a way to circumvent the in-app purchasing process. The hack allows users to download in-app purchase...
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This is great news.
Here's the link to the website http://www.in-appstore.com -
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quote "This is troubling news from a developer point of view and we hope that Apple can quickly fix the loophole that is being used by the hack" .
- developers like myself don't give a damn about apple fixing this problem, we don't sell apps (there is no interesting market). we develop apps to sell a "spot" for advertising. a banner and a short clip or interactive application which is meant to drive customers & clients to get what they want &, we are investing on how to figure out a way to filter Ads for each customer (iOS device user) according to : location, language settings of iOS device, past purchases &/or advertisements clicked & stating target customer for any product/service category, date&time to propose deals for products or services which are (potentially) an immediate sale (by entering quantity, delivery details , credit cards details for payment on the advertiser website). it is worth a mention we would not profile the iOS device users using age, title of study, job title, gender, phone numbers , name & address but a unique identifier only to be compliant with data protection act. (all across every country)
QUOTE: "It is important to note here that downloading the in-app purchases using the hack is illegal."
- it is no different from purchasing using **** app. the illegal bit is eventually at the provider hand who is not paying (eventually) those apps developers the commission for income made by placing ads (if any) when purchasing. ios device users are not breaking the law or committing criminal offence when buying in-app purchases priced at 0$ nor it is illegal to set a customized DNS & installing a couple of certificates from websites on internet.
QUOTE "The hack also seems to transmit user's iTunes account information to the hackers servers"
- this is a little bit ios device users need to "pay" to benefit in-app purchases priced to 0$. (REMINDER there are no credit cards details stored on iOS device within itunes account info & it's unlikely APPLE stores those info & data unsecurely on their servers however, there's possibility APPLEid's & passwords get sent to the hackers servers together with some contacts details giving US hassles.
QUOTE ".....and could permanently ban such iTunes accounts."
- APPLE will not ever ban itunes accounts for it would reduce iOS device sales & allow other software platforms to gain market share.
take care, Marc
