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Originally Posted by elcreative
Nothing new in the article and a key point covered was that it was proof of concept and tested on the devisers' own kit... it wasn't in the wild
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It was in the wild, it was published on the appstore and removed shortly afterwards before people could start downloading it - it passed all the checks that apple has in place.
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Researchers from the School of Computer Science, College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology created a proof-of-concept "Jekyll" app and "successfully published it in the App Store."
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Yes, it's a proof of concept, which proves that the walled garden has cracks in it, and just as this app is exploiting them, just as a proof of concept, others could be doing the real deal.