Not possible. For one, it's inside of an.IPA file, so the user would have to decide to manually extract the files, THEN run "file://{path}/malware.exe". At which point Windows would ask if you know WTF you are doing, and even saying yes at that point, an up to date Windows Defender would kill it.
Sigh, it is secure, or at least this "issue" doesn't show that it isn't secure. Even on a Windows PC, this app cannot infect you through iTunes. The ONLY WAY it can infect the user would be for the user to manually extract the contents of the.IPA (iPhone app), then dig through a bunch of folders, and then try to open the executable (and ignore warnings from Windows not to do so).
There is no way aside from that for this malware to install, infect, or spread.
It's literally impossible for what you describe to work. iTunes can't be made to decompress a purchased ipa file and randomly run a windows executable in a random folder. If you knew anything about how.ipa's, iTunes, or had bothered to read and understand the article you'd know the only way for this malware to do anything would be for a windows user to follow a specific (and unlikely as hell) set of steps and intentionally infect themselves.
Well, that's a bit complicated of a theory, not to mention there'd be zillions of easier ways to infect a PC. This is ignoring the fact that according to the apps reviews the app worked fine and wasn't 'throwing out errors'. It's a complete non-issue. Leave the tinfoil hat at home on this one.
No, it wouldn't be trivial. The end user would have to decompress the.ipa file manually on a PC, manually browse a few directories deep, and manually open the.exe.
There is no way for this malware to run itself at all, and a user would have to be intentionally TRYING to infect themselves for it to even run.
Whoa, what? You're seriously judging all Macs based on an incredibly old, out of date POS from 1997? A Mac who can only run up to OS 9.1? I presume it runs like shit because that Mac IS shit. But deciding modern Macs running on completely different hardware on a completely rewritten from scratch OS (compared to OS9) has got to be the oddest attempt at a troll I've seen in years. Bravo good sir, bravo.
From the sound of things this doesn't seem like an intentional attempt to infect users co punters via the App Store.
The iOS app itself is NOT malware, and works as its supposed to. The malware is for Win32, and can do nothing on an iOS device, or a Mac, is located deep inside the.app folder directory, and has no way of launching itself. The only way for it to spread, or even run at all would be:
Windows user browses to the iTunes backup folder For no particular reason at all decides to extract the contents of the.app file Decides to dig down a few directoies inside of that Out of boredom decides to run the the infected.exe.
Rather than an intentional attempt to sneak Malware onto the App Store, it sounds more likely to me that the developer of the app was infected themselves, and unknowingly packaged it in the iOS app. Granted, Apple should be doing a virus scan before approving an App, but this malware is DOA barring the extremely unlikely scenario a user would have to do that I listed above for any chance of infection.
I don't recall anyone here claiming that iPhone piracy doesn't exist. All anyone has said is that it is much more common on Android, and that developers in general make more money selling on iOS than Android. These are facts.
You don't see how installing secret, hidden software on a computer that doesn't belong to you which secretly takes pictures of people without permission and publishing them online is illegal?
if I leave my front door open it doesn't mean you can walk into my house.
He obviously KNEW what he was doing was wrong, or he wouldn't have gone through the lengths he did to hide what he was doing by having a tab open with Flickr to switch to if someone came by, amongst other things. As far as Secret Service is concerned, I doubt Apple picked up a red phone to the CIA, they likely filed a police report, and law enforcement chose to escalate it up to the Secret Service level.
He did not explani. What he was doing. He asked to take pictures, he didn't ask to install webcam software and upload photos.
if he "had permission" then why does he point out things like making sure he wasn't being watched, and having a tab to Flickr open that he could switch to to hide what he was doing?
Did YOU read it? He asked if he could take pictures, and was told sure. He DIDN'T ask to install hidden webcam software, and reading the article he was clearly trying to not get caught doing so by making sure no one was watching him, and having tabs to other websites open that he could switch to if someone came by.
He can call it art, most human beings would call it creepy as hell, and last I checked you aren't supposed to be installing hidden spy equipment on Apple's display units. And what if Apple had sold any of these display units? Then you'd have hidden spy equipment inside people's homes, snapping photos and emailing this guy. Also I doubt he programmed in the stores hours, so you could have them snapping photos of employees before and after business was open when they do have an expectation of privacy.
So yeah, if you are doing mass installs of spy software, you can expect a knock on your door.
The state I live in (California) has more people than your entire country, to say nothing of the other 49 states, so logistically it's more of a nightmare.
So you have to co-ordinate between local, state, and federal agencies on election day.
Obviously our system is far from perfect regarding recounts and what not, but it usually works out (ignoring 2001 anyway...)
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Nothing, as long as the state pays for the ID, and provides transportation to get the ID. Otherwise "Voter ID" essentially becomes "Poll Tax" and you have people with little or no income unable to vote because they can't afford an ID or the local DMV is two cities over.
Is this limited to just PC? Because, yeah, I know it's popular to hate on the Xbox 360, but Xbox Live Arcade has some pretty nice stuff on it, especially lately. Castle Crashers, Geometry Wars 2, etc.
And then there's the Wii with WiiWare and I think the PS3 has some stuff too;-)
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Not possible. For one, it's inside of an .IPA file, so the user would have to decide to manually extract the files, THEN run "file://{path}/malware.exe". At which point Windows would ask if you know WTF you are doing, and even saying yes at that point, an up to date Windows Defender would kill it.
Sigh, it is secure, or at least this "issue" doesn't show that it isn't secure. Even on a Windows PC, this app cannot infect you through iTunes. The ONLY WAY it can infect the user would be for the user to manually extract the contents of the .IPA (iPhone app), then dig through a bunch of folders, and then try to open the executable (and ignore warnings from Windows not to do so).
There is no way aside from that for this malware to install, infect, or spread.
No, it's a "You didn't read or understand the article" distortion field.
It's literally impossible for what you describe to work. iTunes can't be made to decompress a purchased ipa file and randomly run a windows executable in a random folder. If you knew anything about how .ipa's, iTunes, or had bothered to read and understand the article you'd know the only way for this malware to do anything would be for a windows user to follow a specific (and unlikely as hell) set of steps and intentionally infect themselves.
Well, that's a bit complicated of a theory, not to mention there'd be zillions of easier ways to infect a PC. This is ignoring the fact that according to the apps reviews the app worked fine and wasn't 'throwing out errors'. It's a complete non-issue. Leave the tinfoil hat at home on this one.
No, it wouldn't be trivial. The end user would have to decompress the .ipa file manually on a PC, manually browse a few directories deep, and manually open the .exe.
There is no way for this malware to run itself at all, and a user would have to be intentionally TRYING to infect themselves for it to even run.
Whoa, what? You're seriously judging all Macs based on an incredibly old, out of date POS from 1997? A Mac who can only run up to OS 9.1? I presume it runs like shit because that Mac IS shit. But deciding modern Macs running on completely different hardware on a completely rewritten from scratch OS (compared to OS9) has got to be the oddest attempt at a troll I've seen in years. Bravo good sir, bravo.
From the sound of things this doesn't seem like an intentional attempt to infect users co punters via the App Store.
The iOS app itself is NOT malware, and works as its supposed to. The malware is for Win32, and can do nothing on an iOS device, or a Mac, is located deep inside the .app folder directory, and has no way of launching itself. The only way for it to spread, or even run at all would be:
Windows user browses to the iTunes backup folder .app file .exe.
For no particular reason at all decides to extract the contents of the
Decides to dig down a few directoies inside of that
Out of boredom decides to run the the infected
Rather than an intentional attempt to sneak Malware onto the App Store, it sounds more likely to me that the developer of the app was infected themselves, and unknowingly packaged it in the iOS app. Granted, Apple should be doing a virus scan before approving an App, but this malware is DOA barring the extremely unlikely scenario a user would have to do that I listed above for any chance of infection.
I don't recall anyone here claiming that iPhone piracy doesn't exist. All anyone has said is that it is much more common on Android, and that developers in general make more money selling on iOS than Android. These are facts.
Except what's being described in the article IS fragmentation. But keep telling yourself it's normal to get updates randomly, if at all.
You don't see how installing secret, hidden software on a computer that doesn't belong to you which secretly takes pictures of people without permission and publishing them online is illegal?
if I leave my front door open it doesn't mean you can walk into my house.
He obviously KNEW what he was doing was wrong, or he wouldn't have gone through the lengths he did to hide what he was doing by having a tab open with Flickr to switch to if someone came by, amongst other things. As far as Secret Service is concerned, I doubt Apple picked up a red phone to the CIA, they likely filed a police report, and law enforcement chose to escalate it up to the Secret Service level.
He did not explani. What he was doing. He asked to take pictures, he didn't ask to install webcam software and upload photos.
if he "had permission" then why does he point out things like making sure he wasn't being watched, and having a tab to Flickr open that he could switch to to hide what he was doing?
Did YOU read it? He asked if he could take pictures, and was told sure. He DIDN'T ask to install hidden webcam software, and reading the article he was clearly trying to not get caught doing so by making sure no one was watching him, and having tabs to other websites open that he could switch to if someone came by.
of he "had permission", why the sneakiness?
He can call it art, most human beings would call it creepy as hell, and last I checked you aren't supposed to be installing hidden spy equipment on Apple's display units. And what if Apple had sold any of these display units? Then you'd have hidden spy equipment inside people's homes, snapping photos and emailing this guy. Also I doubt he programmed in the stores hours, so you could have them snapping photos of employees before and after business was open when they do have an expectation of privacy.
So yeah, if you are doing mass installs of spy software, you can expect a knock on your door.
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The state I live in (California) has more people than your entire country, to say nothing of the other 49 states, so logistically it's more of a nightmare.
So you have to co-ordinate between local, state, and federal agencies on election day.
Obviously our system is far from perfect regarding recounts and what not, but it usually works out (ignoring 2001 anyway...)
Nothing, as long as the state pays for the ID, and provides transportation to get the ID. Otherwise "Voter ID" essentially becomes "Poll Tax" and you have people with little or no income unable to vote because they can't afford an ID or the local DMV is two cities over.
I have all of the above. 360's have been shipping with HDMI for what, over a year now? And what HDTV these days doesn't have HDMI?
And HDMI *isn't* necessary, people with the NXE Preview report you can stream Netflix HD over component on the 360 just fine.
http://www.sanjeev.net/latin/scientia-non-habet-inimicum-nisp-ignorantem.html
Sometimes they do: ;-)
http://www.break.com/index/dana_carvey_snl_gerald_ford_is_dead.html
At first i was liek: ...
and then I LOL'd!
And then I realized I might miss his special brand of crazy...
and then I feared someone would take up his cause who may be articulate and not so full of crazy and we will end up in a much worse situation...
You do know how much a mac mini costs right?
Awesome, if you really didn't know it is a reference to the 80's cult hit movie "Heathers":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097493/
Wow, modded -1 troll? I guess the hate is alive and well on /. :P
Do I get modded up to break even if I posted this comment from my Linux laptop? :P
Is this limited to just PC? Because, yeah, I know it's popular to hate on the Xbox 360, but Xbox Live Arcade has some pretty nice stuff on it, especially lately. Castle Crashers, Geometry Wars 2, etc.
And then there's the Wii with WiiWare and I think the PS3 has some stuff too ;-)