Comments on: Rogue Android Smartphone App Created http://metzener.com/2010/01/11/rogue-android-smartphone-app-created/ Just another blogger out of billions... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hargrove http://metzener.com/2010/01/11/rogue-android-smartphone-app-created/#comment-49 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:18:37 +0000 http://www.metzener.com/davemblog/?p=387#comment-49 There was also the Storm8 phone number fiasco. Apple’s jackboot stance didn’t prevent any of Storm8′s apps from getting into the app store. Apple only reacted after-the-fact, which is exactly what Google will have to do as well. Advantage? Google, because they’re not sinking resources into policing their user base. Those resources are better used making a better mobile OS.

For a real eye-opener as to what an iPhone app can do, check out SpyPhone. It’s an open source project released so people will become aware. Here’s an article about it.

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-spyphone-iphone-app-can-harvest-personal-data-120409

What Apple needs to do stop trying to be everyone’s mother. Instead, provide us with an intelligent firewall so we’ll *know* what our phones are doing. Let the user decide what’s acceptable. The jailbreak community has an awesome firewall app.

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