Big Brother camera app removed from App Store

Daniel Amitay, developer of the security software Big Brother for the iPhone 4 or iPod Touch (fourth generation), has found his app removed from the App Store after publishing an article on his blog demonstrating that users often pick easy-to-guess passcodes for the app, drawn from information sent to the developer by the app itself. Apple was concerned that the developer was harvesting in-app passcodes without user knowledge, though Amitay maintains that the data is anonymized....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=38d174abf9e73805d2ede24516174336

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