So there is no proof of it being in the wild and was only found on a website for analyzing files. So how exactly were they wrong?
How exactly do you think it wound up on a website for "analyzing suspicious files and URLs?" Do you think the creator submitted his new trojan to that site without releasing it anywhere else? Because the only reason that would be true is if the creator was Apple, and they wanted to scare people running older versions.
I'm under the impression that trojans generally do not ask for passwords on Windows.
I doubt they ask for passwords, but many of them probably trigger the permission confirmation dialog, where you have to approve what it's about to do. Which is great for any intelligent user who understands those boxes mean that software is about to change Windows, but not so helpful for less knowledgeable users who have been trained to always click Yes on that box.
The "also viewed" list of products on that uranium page leaves some questions. I want to know who out there is simultaneously shopping for uranium, milk, "The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China", a UFO detector, fresh whole rabbit, a horse feeder, a David Hasselhoff "best of" CD, and a home testicle self-exam kit.
The list of products that people actually bought is a little more scary. 3 of those products (iron oxide, aluminum powder, magnesium ribbon) are all you need to make thermite. Which I guess answers the long-standing question I've had since making thermite in high school about where I can get the ingredients easily. Might as well add a little uranium to the mix and see what happens.
Also, this is obviously the best review:
I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.
Apple's incompetence? You are suggesting that Apple is responsible for detecting Malware that affects non-Apple OSes? Should they should look for Linux malware also?
If they're going to run a "curated" app store, then wouldn't it stand to reason that they actually curate their app store? If you can bundle any random files in your app that you want to, and Apple will approve the app, then Apple is distributing those files for you. You could bundle child porn images using whatever filenames you want even, add them into an otherwise frivolous app, put that on the app store for $.99, advertise it wherever those things are currently advertised with instructions about how to extract the images, and voila. Not only is Apple selling your child porn for you, but they're taking a cut of the profits.
So yeah, Apple sort of does have a duty to look at the files in the packages that people submit, regardless of whether they are specifically looking for malware or anything else, and regardless of what OS it targets. You would think an app package distributed with Windows.exe files would raise a red flag, but apparently not. Why is that? Hold on to your fragile Apple sensibilities, because it just may be due to incompetence in Apple screening the app packages.
The article mentions the piracy rate for iOS, the rate is orders of magnitude smaller.
Unless you're reading a different "the article" than I did, no it doesn't. It doesn't say anything about the piracy rate on iOS and the word "magnitude" does not appear in the article text. The only claim it makes in terms of numbers, for either platform, is this paragraph:
If we go by piracy ratio, developers have come up with some rather starling figures. Korea based com2uS has said that some games have seen piracy rate as high as 90%. Appy Entertainment have seen piracy to the ratio of 70:1 i.e. for every 70 illegal installs, there in only one genuine purchase.
Also, if the piracy rate on iOS was in fact "orders of magnitude" smaller, with "orders" being plural, then that would assume a worst-case piracy rate of 0.9%. Various statistics floating around, like these, show iOS piracy rates between 25% - 75% for various types of apps. Various developers, when they actually disclose these numbers, refer to worst-case rates at between 50% to 90%.
In other words, you're talking out of your ass. I guess you're strictly correct, though. The iOS piracy rate is zero "orders of magnitude" smaller than the Android piracy rate. So yeah, it's orders of magnitude smaller. Zero orders. It's also zero orders larger.
That sounds like more fun than figuring out why it takes one server 18 hours to do a certain amount of work, but another server only 40 minutes to do 4 times the work. WTF. The hardware isn't that bad.
Apple adding a feature to their phone that makes the actions and transgressions of other apps much more transparent? No, I don't think anyone has seriously considered that.
The article raises the possibility that Apple did not like the Clueful app because it discloses to users that some developers are in fact evil.
Wouldn't that be a good way to weed out those developers? You're suggesting that Apple may prefer that people don't know which developers are the evil ones?
The most likely reason is that the app fell into a technical TOS violation
Why is that the most likely reason, as opposed to Apple just not liking the transparency that the app provides?
Perhaps because the app sends user data back to the developer?
Plenty of apps do that. Bitdefender says that 20% of apps they've studied send user data to the internet without notifying the user.
Let's not conjure up headlines.
What choice do we have? Apple put Bitdefender under a NDA regarding the removal, and Apple themselves won't justify why they did it unless they're basically forced to. We have no choice but to speculate.
And most of us women, while yes, we do sometimes dress sexy at work, that's not a comeon for you at work. That's a meet me after work proposition. As in, when the work is done, and the boss isn't around.
Hey now, stop that you tease. I already know you're gay. Nice outfit, though.
Would you really enjoy working or reading code written like:
// Get your new one night stand LOL ThrobbingCock = CockFactory.new();
// Get it hard for me, papi LOL while not ThrobbingCock.erect() {
ThrobbingCock.suck();
HairyBalls.fondle(); }
// Stick that shit in! LOL ThrobbingCock.insert();
That is utterly ridiculous. I never write "LOL".
I understand what you're saying, even though you're going to an extreme with an example that would get someone fired. I'm not the type of person to do things like that, I don't go around the office making sexist jokes. I just get a short-circuit in my brain when I see women making themselves up to look as sexually attractive as they possibly can and then complain that men view them as sex objects. I certainly do notice when they do that for themselves, but I never bring that up in a professional environment. I'm not at work to get a date, I'm here to work. Even though I've dated 2 of the women I've worked with.. I'm here to work.
You don't get it. Fine. Then don't tell other people how to feel. Women don't need your big smart male brain to explain how their poor womanly one should react to things that relate to experiences men don't have.
OK, so women don't want men to think about, talk about, look at, or otherwise interact with boobs, is that the case? Women (not literally - very not literally) push their boobs in men's faces all the time and then act like we should ignore them. I see women with low-cut shirts exposing their cleavage on a daily basis, but fuck me if I make a comment on or otherwise react to them, then I'm sexist! It's a little hypocritical to flaunt yourself and then complain when men see you as a sexual object.
It doesn't even have to be technical. Shit, I would be thrilled with a girl who knew about current events in the world. The closest I got was a girl who would periodically ask me what's happening in the world but didn't know about things herself.
Oh I get coverage, I get all the 3G, sometimes-20kbps-speed network I want. But the only time I turn on the 4G antenna is when I go to another city. You won't find Sprint 4G in Phoenix. We've got over 4 million people living in this area, but no 4G. But Boise, ID; Kenniwick, WA; Layton, UT - all the 4G you want there. Just not in the 6th largest city in the country.
They were "working" on it when I bought my Evo 4G in the middle of 2010. I doubt that phone will ever see a 4G network in Phoenix before I replace it. It doesn't support LTE, so they'll probably just skip WiMax and go to LTE. Thanks, Sprint.
Unlimited 4G data plans are meaningless if your phones keeps showing the "No service" symbol whenever you are indoors.
Or outdoors. I bought my Evo 4G in, what, 2009? They told me that 4G service was coming to Phoenix "soon". The only time I ever use 4G with Sprint is if I go to Las Vegas. Sprint can take their 4G "network" and blow it out their ass. At this point if I stay with Sprint I'll look forward to being able to use a 4G LTE network sometime in mid 2025.
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So there is no proof of it being in the wild and was only found on a website for analyzing files. So how exactly were they wrong?
How exactly do you think it wound up on a website for "analyzing suspicious files and URLs?" Do you think the creator submitted his new trojan to that site without releasing it anywhere else? Because the only reason that would be true is if the creator was Apple, and they wanted to scare people running older versions.
I'm under the impression that trojans generally do not ask for passwords on Windows.
I doubt they ask for passwords, but many of them probably trigger the permission confirmation dialog, where you have to approve what it's about to do. Which is great for any intelligent user who understands those boxes mean that software is about to change Windows, but not so helpful for less knowledgeable users who have been trained to always click Yes on that box.
I have 2 horseshoe pits in my backyard just dying to be turned into glass.
The "also viewed" list of products on that uranium page leaves some questions. I want to know who out there is simultaneously shopping for uranium, milk, "The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China", a UFO detector, fresh whole rabbit, a horse feeder, a David Hasselhoff "best of" CD, and a home testicle self-exam kit.
The list of products that people actually bought is a little more scary. 3 of those products (iron oxide, aluminum powder, magnesium ribbon) are all you need to make thermite. Which I guess answers the long-standing question I've had since making thermite in high school about where I can get the ingredients easily. Might as well add a little uranium to the mix and see what happens.
Also, this is obviously the best review:
I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.
Apple's incompetence? You are suggesting that Apple is responsible for detecting Malware that affects non-Apple OSes? Should they should look for Linux malware also?
If they're going to run a "curated" app store, then wouldn't it stand to reason that they actually curate their app store? If you can bundle any random files in your app that you want to, and Apple will approve the app, then Apple is distributing those files for you. You could bundle child porn images using whatever filenames you want even, add them into an otherwise frivolous app, put that on the app store for $.99, advertise it wherever those things are currently advertised with instructions about how to extract the images, and voila. Not only is Apple selling your child porn for you, but they're taking a cut of the profits.
So yeah, Apple sort of does have a duty to look at the files in the packages that people submit, regardless of whether they are specifically looking for malware or anything else, and regardless of what OS it targets. You would think an app package distributed with Windows .exe files would raise a red flag, but apparently not. Why is that? Hold on to your fragile Apple sensibilities, because it just may be due to incompetence in Apple screening the app packages.
It's a company that sells anti-piracy software for iOS, so take it for what it's worth.
I don't pirate despite I have the knowhow because I value my job, and value the job of the developers that make the apps that I enjoy.
That's the same reason I don't pirate applications, and as a developer I prefer Android.
The article mentions the piracy rate for iOS, the rate is orders of magnitude smaller.
Unless you're reading a different "the article" than I did, no it doesn't. It doesn't say anything about the piracy rate on iOS and the word "magnitude" does not appear in the article text. The only claim it makes in terms of numbers, for either platform, is this paragraph:
If we go by piracy ratio, developers have come up with some rather starling figures. Korea based com2uS has said that some games have seen piracy rate as high as 90%. Appy Entertainment have seen piracy to the ratio of 70:1 i.e. for every 70 illegal installs, there in only one genuine purchase.
Also, if the piracy rate on iOS was in fact "orders of magnitude" smaller, with "orders" being plural, then that would assume a worst-case piracy rate of 0.9%. Various statistics floating around, like these, show iOS piracy rates between 25% - 75% for various types of apps. Various developers, when they actually disclose these numbers, refer to worst-case rates at between 50% to 90%.
In other words, you're talking out of your ass. I guess you're strictly correct, though. The iOS piracy rate is zero "orders of magnitude" smaller than the Android piracy rate. So yeah, it's orders of magnitude smaller. Zero orders. It's also zero orders larger.
That sounds like more fun than figuring out why it takes one server 18 hours to do a certain amount of work, but another server only 40 minutes to do 4 times the work. WTF. The hardware isn't that bad.
Theorists are now poking at the mathematical chinks
I realize Asians are known for excelling at math, but do we really have to bring race into this?
I'm very, very sorry. I couldn't resist. I understand I'm a terrible person, you don't need to reply and tell me that.
Apple adding a feature to their phone that makes the actions and transgressions of other apps much more transparent? No, I don't think anyone has seriously considered that.
What kind of NDA do they have that keeps them from saying why it was pulled?
Probably the kind of NDA that keeps them from saying why it was pulled. As in, "we're pulling your app, if you want to know why sign here."
The article raises the possibility that Apple did not like the Clueful app because it discloses to users that some developers are in fact evil.
Wouldn't that be a good way to weed out those developers? You're suggesting that Apple may prefer that people don't know which developers are the evil ones?
The most likely reason is that the app fell into a technical TOS violation
Why is that the most likely reason, as opposed to Apple just not liking the transparency that the app provides?
Perhaps because the app sends user data back to the developer?
Plenty of apps do that. Bitdefender says that 20% of apps they've studied send user data to the internet without notifying the user.
Let's not conjure up headlines.
What choice do we have? Apple put Bitdefender under a NDA regarding the removal, and Apple themselves won't justify why they did it unless they're basically forced to. We have no choice but to speculate.
And most of us women, while yes, we do sometimes dress sexy at work, that's not a comeon for you at work. That's a meet me after work proposition. As in, when the work is done, and the boss isn't around.
Hey now, stop that you tease. I already know you're gay. Nice outfit, though.
Would you really enjoy working or reading code written like:
// Get your new one night stand LOL
ThrobbingCock = CockFactory.new();
while not ThrobbingCock.erect() {
ThrobbingCock.suck();
HairyBalls.fondle();
}
ThrobbingCock.insert();
That is utterly ridiculous. I never write "LOL".
I understand what you're saying, even though you're going to an extreme with an example that would get someone fired. I'm not the type of person to do things like that, I don't go around the office making sexist jokes. I just get a short-circuit in my brain when I see women making themselves up to look as sexually attractive as they possibly can and then complain that men view them as sex objects. I certainly do notice when they do that for themselves, but I never bring that up in a professional environment. I'm not at work to get a date, I'm here to work. Even though I've dated 2 of the women I've worked with.. I'm here to work.
You don't get it. Fine. Then don't tell other people how to feel. Women don't need your big smart male brain to explain how their poor womanly one should react to things that relate to experiences men don't have.
OK, so women don't want men to think about, talk about, look at, or otherwise interact with boobs, is that the case? Women (not literally - very not literally) push their boobs in men's faces all the time and then act like we should ignore them. I see women with low-cut shirts exposing their cleavage on a daily basis, but fuck me if I make a comment on or otherwise react to them, then I'm sexist! It's a little hypocritical to flaunt yourself and then complain when men see you as a sexual object.
It's not designed to work on the nuts
NUT ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE NUTS!
It doesn't even have to be technical. Shit, I would be thrilled with a girl who knew about current events in the world. The closest I got was a girl who would periodically ask me what's happening in the world but didn't know about things herself.
Most men are intimidated by smart women, and so most women who are smart try to conceal it.
If they were smart they would be dating guys who accept them (or want them) for who they are.
My average download speed is under 300kbps
Luxury! A few results from using the speedtest.net app on the "Now Network" here in Phoenix:
4/12/12 - 97kbps
1/17/12 - 132kbps
10/3/11 - 197kbps
8/2/11 - 35kbps
3/17/11 - 40kbps
Right now it is showing a ping of 138ms and a download speed of 189kbps.
Oh I get coverage, I get all the 3G, sometimes-20kbps-speed network I want. But the only time I turn on the 4G antenna is when I go to another city. You won't find Sprint 4G in Phoenix. We've got over 4 million people living in this area, but no 4G. But Boise, ID; Kenniwick, WA; Layton, UT - all the 4G you want there. Just not in the 6th largest city in the country.
They were "working" on it when I bought my Evo 4G in the middle of 2010. I doubt that phone will ever see a 4G network in Phoenix before I replace it. It doesn't support LTE, so they'll probably just skip WiMax and go to LTE. Thanks, Sprint.
Does Sprint have a vision to bring any 4G network at all to the 6th biggest city in the country? Or are we still screwed for the foreseeable future?
Correction, that would be 2010.
Unlimited 4G data plans are meaningless if your phones keeps showing the "No service" symbol whenever you are indoors.
Or outdoors. I bought my Evo 4G in, what, 2009? They told me that 4G service was coming to Phoenix "soon". The only time I ever use 4G with Sprint is if I go to Las Vegas. Sprint can take their 4G "network" and blow it out their ass. At this point if I stay with Sprint I'll look forward to being able to use a 4G LTE network sometime in mid 2025.