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App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations
An anonymous reader writes "Certain iPhone and iPad applications from a Japanese company have broken software piracy detection mechanisms that are sending out tweets on the user's own Twitter account, saying, 'How about we all stop using pirated iOS apps? I promise to stop. I really will. #softwarepirateconfession.' The trouble is, it's sending these out on accounts of users who actually paid up to $50 or more for the software and who are legally using it. The app is asking for access to users' Twitter accounts, but does not give the reason why it is asking, so the author of the article concluded (rightly) that things were being done deliberately. Would you want your legally purchased software to send out messages to all of your contacts on Twitter or on other social networks saying that you were a software pirate? Would you excuse the writers of the software if it was just an error in their piracy detection measures?"
The author of the article admits to using Installous, which is a program for installing pirated iOS applications.
Maybe he was just pissed that he was busted!
The author of the article admits to using Installous, which is a program for installing pirated iOS applications.
Maybe he was just pissed that he was busted!
So it is either pirated or he pirated other apps in the past and he is running them on a jailbroken device. This probably would not affect anyone who had was running it on a non-jailbroken device.
It is possible that the detection mechanism checks to see if the device still has BSD jails enabled and assumes that if it is running on a jailbroken device then it is probably pirated.
I don't have too much sympathy for this person given than they were stupid enough to jailbreak their device leaving it wide open to exploitation and had installous installed.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Don't expect to have software support if you are going to remove all safe guards in your OS.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
People pay far more than that for desktop apps.
No. Desktop applications, yes, but iDevice apps, no. Show me Photoshop on an iPad, then come back. If you are willing to pay $50 for an app, that better be a darn good app that you can hardly live without. Otherwise the other A/C's point is proven.
Having been to your blog, I'd address your virginity first, then your strange twisted moral compass next.
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Wow. A single word post gets Score:4, Insightful. WTF, Slashshit?
How about this. If that got +4, mine should get +12, but it won't, because the people running this site have their heads up their asses, apparently.
Here's something really insightful. People using this app are fucktards because they're using an iOS device in the first place, and apparently they're also on Shitter, where useless shits twit and twat at each other in 144 characters or less, or whatever the fuck the bullshit arbitrary limit is, causing them to compress thought into so badly broken English it makes Pidgin English look like fucking Shakespeare.
If they weren't using CrApple fucking iShit "devices", or wasting time twatting each other, they wouldn't have this problem.
FTFY.
Good grief, what a crappy post.