Today has come across this webpage in a blog and has been a little bit dumbfounded. It appears, that so popular game Aurora Feint for iPhone/iPod touch copies all your contacts (telephone numbers, e-mail addresses), hides them in a “confidential” directory of your iPhone and then sends on a game server.
And where looks Apple? Apple company was promised to check carefully all apps in AppStore. Though, probably, this news is urged to discredit Steve and his command. Well, my advice do not install this game on your iPhone…
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danielle cassley
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
1Please visit our website/forum for the real scoop. Aurora Feint Is neither a Trojan or spyware. The “confidential” folder discussed here is an application specific folder for documents related to the game. Each application could potentially have a folder of it’s own. The file referred to stores game state including character information, unique identifiers for your account and contact data for optimizations related to the opt-in community feature. Aurora Feint does NOT store contact data or relationships between players (hence the need for the local optimization).
With this said we understand the discomfort people have and are working with the community to build a feature that doesn’t cause hesitation or discomfort. Please feel free to contribute in our forum or email us directly.
aurorafeint.com/privacy.html
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