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Apple Finally Fixes Unencrypted App Store Login

Posted by Unknown on Saturday March 9, 2013 @09:13AM from the stealing-your-fart-apps dept.

Deekin_Scalesinger writes "More than eighteen months after being first brought to Cupertino's attention, Apple gets around to addressing insecure logins to the App Store. In theory, this could be used to view lists of installed apps and make unauthorized purchases." Yep, they were sending login information over plain http.

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Re:Slashdot only posts negative Apple & MS sto by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-09 09:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just a couple days ago, Slashdot posted a negative story about Google cutting more jobs at Motorola. No, wait, that was actually a good thing because they're removing dead weight so they can concentrate on suing Apple and Microsoft over FRAND patents.