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monkmartinez | 4 months ago

Does Apple have an explicit guarantee that apps can not scam or data siphon from an iPhone or iPad app?

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chongli|4 months ago

Yes, assuming that iOS's entitlement security has not been broken.

Deathmax|4 months ago

As if the App Store had any sort of those guarantees. I know of people have been scammed via WebView wrappers that purported to be some benign app to pass app store review, which were then pointed at fake exchange websites afterwards. GitLab which was hosting their C&C mechanism took action faster than Apple or Google did to take down multiple scam apps across multiple different developer identities, but the scammers spun up new apps the next day.

asadotzler|4 months ago

Point me to an Apple document that says they'll reimburse me if I'm scammed by an App Store app. If Apple cannot offer a guarantee, that means they don't trust their App Store to protect me and if they don't trust their App Store to protect me then they can hardly claim in court that they deny user choice to protect users.