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Apple Fails To Block Porn and Gambling 'Enterprise' Apps (techcrunch.com)
Facebook and Google were far from the only developers openly abusing Apple's Enterprise Certificate program meant for companies offering employee-only apps. A TechCrunch investigation uncovered a dozen hardcore pornography apps and a dozen real-money gambling apps that escaped Apple's oversight. From the report: The developers passed Apple's weak Enterprise Certificate screening process or piggybacked on a legitimate approval, allowing them to sidestep the App Store and Cupertino's traditional safeguards designed to keep iOS family friendly. Without proper oversight, they were able to operate these vice apps that blatantly flaunt Apple's content policies. The situation shows further evidence that Apple has been neglecting its responsibility to police the Enterprise Certificate program, leading to its exploitation to circumvent App Store rules and forbidden categories.
See how stupid this headline is? That's how stupid apple is for not allowing anyone to run whatever they damn well please on hardware they own and paid for.
Makes perfect sense to have lots of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, violence but have no tolerance for nipples.
...designed to keep iOS family friendly.
Safari come installed by default yes? You can get to porn and gambling really easy on that.
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if these apps are not in the app store and are installed voluntarily why does apple care.
You don't get as much money as they have by doing the work. You skip the work and just collect the cash.
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Effing murican hypocrites. Tits and nipples never hurt anyone. Drugs and guns on the other hand ...
Makes perfect sense to have lots of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, violence but have no tolerance for nipples.
Only female nipples though. Big no no.
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And the warden knows that not all contraband is the same. But, still, you can't have the image that the rules aren't being enforced at all.
The gambling & porn apps will get a new EAC and move their users over; it's the hassle that they should have been planning for. Two of the apps in the article's table have multiple web presences, suggesting that some have planned for it.
For Facebook & Google, it's a PR issue. Apple may have scored points with the public for putting out this "we're protecting you against the big guys" story. It would look unseemly for Facebook or Google to directly point out the other contraband in Apple's jail -- nobody like a snitch.
But then the articles and commentary will come from people with ties to Facebook or Google, such as someone who "was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, ... covering everything about the social network", that "has moderated over 120 on-stage interviews" but lists only three: Edward Snowden, U,S, Senator Cory Booker, and Mark Zuckerberg.
I'm just saying, a little birdie told me...
I don't think it's very practical for Apple to really police enterprise apps, due to the way they are distributed and who can possibly be running them. Lots of companies rely heavily on the aspect where you do not have to keep track of each and every device and people can easily install company apps on personal devices...
I think where Apple could improve things though is in the initial application for enterprise developer programs. At the very least, it seems like it would not take too much more effort to block one issue mentioned in the article - registering for an enterprise dev account with a stolen DUNS number. There should be some way that Apple could ask the main contact info for any given DUNS number to confirm they had indeed asked for such access... That wouldn't stop everyone but it would probably stop the worst cases.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Tits and nipples never hurt anyone."
ROFLMFAO
I don't think any of the above should be outlawed or censored in any way but you've got to be kidding with this. Behind every fight, war, ambition, and dispute there is at least one fine pair of tits. If it weren't for competition to get laid we'd all be content masturbating in caves and eating whatever thing we killed that day raw.
Mr Cook, tear down this wall.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I have an app called Safari on my iPhone. There is quite a bit of porn accessible with it.
Babies have died from (accidentally) suffocation by their mothers' breasts, when she is asleep and doesn't notice.
So breasts have hurt some people. But still, you can't blame all that other stuff on the breasts, it's just not their fault.
What kind of person says "I have no self control so I'll blame everything I do on others and make THEM change to accommodate me"? Looks like you plus Muslims, SJWs, conservative Christians, ...
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If it is for a Business paid-for iphone or such, I can understand some limiting. No one wants their employees spending worktime ogling prn or gambling while at the workplace or when they should be working. It's called (at the least), "inappropriate" or "distracting". That being said, most businesses know their products (iphones or tablets) will sometimes get used outside of work in ways they had not planned. In such cases, I'm guessing some businesses do not care. Just not at work.
But what is this about Apple, "neglecting its responsibility to police?" Apple simply provides the product. The company they provide the product to should be setting the policies and standards. Give me a break. A good idea for Apple would be for them to provide easy to understand levels of limitation on what Apps are allowed on their company products. Then the company can decide - to a point.
Neither Apple nor the company should be able to limit free speech. Neither should be deciding what opinions or speech or news sites a person can read or go to. Almost everyone goes to news sites. They can be for weather, general news, technical, or political. How is it that some people think it is bad to limit access to some very distracting prn while at work but think it is OK to filter out any site that has a hint of political incorrectness?
I've worked for a company that uses an enterprise account for internal testing. Apps signed with enterprise profiles are never seen by Apple.
I'm sorry, but I fail to see a problem. In fact, "failure to block" is the best headline one could hear. We have to make the whole internet impossible to block, by anybody. Let's tear down the borders and destroy the tyranny!
"Apple has been neglecting its responsibility to police"
How is it their responsibility? Are they officially the (thought) police now? If there is a crime report it to the actual police. If not then it's not their responsibility.
Spoon manufacturers have been neglecting their responsibility to police people eating too much ice cream.
"they were able to operate these vice apps that blatantly flaunt Apple's content policies"
The word is flout, not "flaunt."
Real humans like vices that upset me, waaaah!!!!
Just think, email, browser, movie player, picture viewer, document viewer can be used FOR PORN. or TO ARRANGE GAMBLING OPPORTUNITIES. Why does Apple and google allow these perversions?
Who the hell put them in charge of whatâ(TM)s right and wrong? God damn it.
They're unlikely to have died from seeing a picture of the relevant organ, though. Which is what we're talking about :D
So if you have a company, you should have to pay Dun & Bradstreet for permission to develop internal apps? Fuck your idea.
When Kamala Tupac Snoop Dog Harris is in charge she will SJW their ass to block porn and gambling.
'What kind of person says "I have no self control so I'll blame everything I do on others and make THEM change to accommodate me"?'
I don't recall saying anything about making others change or accommodate anything. I'm just making the observation that most all violence and ambition ultimately comes down to the innate and not self controllable male desire for appeal to females combined with the innate female emotional instability with regard to contentment.
Females are never content and men always want females that results in ever moving and shifting goals and social norms and a constant competition and chase to meet them. It is not exactly a new or secret theme. The greeks told the tale in the form of Helen of Troy.
So if you have a company, you should have to pay Dun & Bradstreet
Maybe you should have looked into that a little more carefully? Since a DUNS is free and all?
The purpose of the DUNS number is to have an entity that keeps track of legally registered businesses. So yes in fact, I do think Apple should make sure there is some understanding of who is requesting the open-ended ability to distribute applications on the platform. It's just that they also should verify who they are talking to really belongs with that DUNS number.
Let be just close by saying I think we can all agree, you should shut your pie hole if you don't understand the subject at hand.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
We tried to develop an iOS app for a small startup that had no DUNS number. Even for regular apps Apple stupidly requires this nonsense. Our solution was simple: Our app is Android only.
The sooner iOS and Apple disappears the better the world will be.
Note: I was an Apple fan for a long time (and a NeXT fan prior to that). But modern Apple seems to be pure garbage.
The first war among men was allegedly caused by Helen of Troy's epic prow.
Apple needs to drop the apple store only / have an adults only area.
Will they ban HBO as that as nude in it.
Female-identifying nipples.
Nope, crimes are un-invented to let victims be exploited without repercussion.