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Is Aurora Feint the iPhone’s first Spyware?
macenstein.com — Aurora Feint creates a copy of all the e-mail addresses and phone numbers in your contacts list, and stores them in a “secret” directory on your iPhone This in an of itself is a bit suspect, but alarm bells really began to go off when someone noticed that AF was sending that information to the Aurora Feint servers as well.
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- MalDON, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1If this is true, then I see a lawsuit coming.
- synagence, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Regardless... its just bad implementation of a feature ... disappointing.
- auricomnet, on 07/22/2008, -1/+1"hand job"
- torifile, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1It may not be malicious, but it is spyware. The developers need to make the "community" feature completely transparent and open.
- minionboy, on 07/23/2008, -1/+0This is all dumb. The only time any personal information is transmitted between your phone and the server is when you tell it to cross reference your contacts to see if any of your friends play. Anyone that thinks this is spyware is just dumb.
Buried...- coldfusion1970, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2The question isnt whether this is spyware, but the fact that any application can copy our contact details and send them out over the internet without our knowledge or consent.
Apple needs to build a wall between third party applications and your personal contact information so NO developer can surreptitiously steal your information.
- coldfusion1970, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2The question isnt whether this is spyware, but the fact that any application can copy our contact details and send them out over the internet without our knowledge or consent.
- jmontes, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2While the makers of Aurora Feint may have only had good intentions in what they did, the real problem here is that Apps have unchallenged access to the contact information in the iPhone. Contact information needs to be protected just like the current location (GPS data) is protected. Apps should have to dyanmically get permission to access your contact information. The sandbox that Apps can run in needs to be fairly limited, or at least the iPhone user needs to be able to control some of the extents of those limits.
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