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February 14, 2019 04:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/esX7hhIrYiE/software-pirates-use-apple-tech-to-put-hacked-apps-on-iphones
Software Pirates Use Apple Tech To Put Hacked Apps on iPhones
Pirates used Apple's enterprise developer certificates to put out hacked versions of some major apps, a report said Thursday. From the report: Illicit software distributors such as TutuApp, Panda Helper, AppValley and TweakBox have found ways to use digital certificates to get access to a program Apple introduced to let corporations distribute business apps to their employees without going through Apple's tightly controlled App Store. Using so-called enterprise developer certificates, these pirate operations are providing modified versions of popular apps to consumers, enabling them to stream music without ads and to circumvent fees and rules in games, depriving Apple and legitimate app makers of revenue. By doing so, the pirate app distributors are violating the rules of Apple's developer programs, which only allow apps to be distributed to the general public through the App Store. Downloading modified versions violates the terms of service of almost all major apps.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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