Apps in Need of Rejection: Ones That Steal Your iPhone Number and shout You to Up-sell

So you compose an app free, get humans to download it, soon after use it to violate your users’ privacy by pulling their telephone number off their iPhone so you can signal them and try to bother them into coughing up money for your paid app.

Yeah, that should be a rejection, whether not a banning.

(No, we’re not mentioning the name of the app, why give them publicity? Picture above is proof of concept cipher showing how the

iPhone user telephone number is retrieved.)

[via Mac4Ever — thanks everyone who sent that in]

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Apps in Need of Rejection: Ones That Steal Your iPhone Number and shout You to Up-sell

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