YOU ARE PROTECTED IN OUR WALL GARDEN! APPLE USES HAVE NO NEED T- oops, anyway YOU ARE PROTECTED.
They’ve actually been responsible for tons of malware over the years. I recall seeing a massive leak back around 2015, and the story was buried by PR so quickly it left me very impressed.
The idea that iOS is in any way, shape, or form more safe than android is 100% PR. The fact Google allows users to override safety measures and install third party apps at their own risk is entirely why they’ve done this.
If Apple fans realize this is as safe as installing anything else on any computer (including macs), then Apple will have to answer to them. As long as they think they are more protected than android users, however, Apple’s MO to take in money remains safe.
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How’s that walled garden working out?
To be fair, things like this are pretty rare.
The more common experience is that those reviewers are anal as hell reject people for petty stuff. This malware guy lucked out and got the burned out app reviewer who didn’t look twice.
They’re rare but they’re very effective, because people have their guard down there.
Yeah, but as the poor sap who has been deemed “computer guy” for every elderly parent, aunt and uncle in the family, I think the Play and App Stores do a decent job of keeping malware in check.
It’s not perfect, but about once every year or two I have to put out a malware fire with a Windows laptop in the family. Dealing with the phones is less of a headache. Especially the iOS devices.
I wish iOS made it easier for people like me to remove those guardrails for my own needs, but for my 80 year old parents, I’m all for keeping them living in Apple and Google’s stores.
Apple can’t hear you over the billions of dollars they’re extorting.
I am surprised this happened, it’s the first case of anything like this that I have heard of. Do you know of any other cases?
Thanks for the links. I wasn’t aware of those, it sounds like PlayStore level of crapware in those cases, although you have to be REALLY dumb to be fooled by such obvious ones. But if you’re a very technically challenged person I am sure it is possible.
But the case with the LastPass clone is definitely much more malicious.
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Its beyond irresponsible it wasn’t pulled the moment the most recent revelations came about. It also made me wonder if Apple “sees” certain fields of your keychain items, in-line with their conflation of convergent encryption as e2ee and other assorted privacy antics
Why would you assume they “see” certain keychain fields based on the article?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one wondering that.
“Because APPLE BAAAD”
