Apple killed our app say Chaos Computer Club The Chaos Computer Club is claiming that Apple has rejected an app that would stream security talks from its Chaos Communications Congress event because researchers there have previously hacked iOS. The Congress is Europe's largest hacker confab, regularly attracts more than 10,000 delegates and has run for 31 years. The event …
Anyone with the remotest interest in this subject is under no illusions about what Apple's App Store is all about.
It's Apple's system and they have the perfect right to control it as they see fit, users can't fail to realise the 'mind control' Apple exerts, they agree to it when they purchase Apple's products.
No, I'm not an Apple 'fanboi', I think Apple is a far more 'evil' company than Microsoft ever was, but what they do is hardly a secret.
>It's Apple's system and they have the perfect right to control it as they see fit,
Ah, the purist capitalist!
Certainly in Europe, if a company gains a significant amount of control in a market segment, it acquires obligations to play nice and does *not* have the perfect right do as it sees fit.
That said, I have to to start wondering why the CCC needs an app to stream data. That begins to look like the old, "you need a codec" ploy.
Was recently tickled to find that the Leeds County Council City free wifi considers El Reg to be a hacking website... I really should have played around abit more to see just how obscure I could go find but I think i could do with my laptop before I try that one.
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Apple doesn't like having its magic boxes prised apart, and forbids so in its terms and conditions.
I would also be somewhat surprised if the CCC was on Apple's christmas card list.
An english version of Peter Shaw's blog post on this is now availiable (just scroll down) https://unthoughted.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/apple-verbietet-inhalte-vom-chaos-computer-club-auf-ihrer-plattform/ or on http://pastebin.com/zt1n0rpv
This is why the rise of 'walled gardens' are a bad thing. Most smartphone users I know don't even know you can install apps without using the appstore. Sure most people like that aren't interested in this conference, but it does show just how powerful companies like Apple and Google have become.
So Apple bans an app that could be used to discover how to break the security of the systems they sell?
(jailbreaking)
They are onto a loser whichever way they go. Bad Apple for removing the CCC app or Bad Apple for letting this hacking App stay in the App store?
You choose ok?
But the publicity that the CCC hs gained from this action is worth an awful lot to them.... All publicity is good publicity eh?
This isn't a hacking app. It's an app which allows people to watch video streams from a conference where some people may be discussing security issues (including hacking) which may or may not be related to iOS.
They allow the YouTube app which allows access to the same videos and a whole heap more.
If these do exist in iOS then why would the Feds need to force Apple to decrypt a suspects iDevice?
Can we have some evidence please? I'd like to go slap tim cook around the head with it if it is true.
But all the evidence seems to point to their being no back doors in iOS.
come on now, prove us all wrong and then we can rejoice in the fact that iOS is as crappy as Android.
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