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Originally Posted by afv011
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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Yes, it's a proof of concept, which proofs that the walled garden has cracks in it, as just as this app is exploiting them, just as a proof of concept, others could be doing the real deal. |
It was hardly in the wild, it was put up by the researchers just long enough to see what Apple's checks were then removed (it says that in the article)... hardly the wild - that's when it's available and ready to get anyone who D/Ls it... and proof of concept doen't equal others are be doing it just that a problem was found and, as it's known, will be dealt with - it's NOT the same as loads of apps trying to do nasty things on other OSs actually being in existence and available from third party and OS specific sites...
You're trying to equate Apples (no pun intended) with oranges - proof of concept doesn't equal actual attacks and the fact that each time a problem is found, it makes headline news but other OSs get dumped on so much that reports are treated as a matter of course, tends to support the view that some OSs are safer than others - please note that I said
"safer not immune...