{"id":2266,"date":"2010-03-03T22:42:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2010-03-03T22:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:42:49","slug":"what-your-iphone-apps-know-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/03\/what-your-iphone-apps-know-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Your iPhone Apps Know About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/03\/03\/blackberry-iphone-android-technology-security10-privacy.html\">Andy Greenberg<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nst021\/status\/9948020008\">Nicolas Seriot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/03\/03\/blackberry-iphone-android-technology-security10-privacy.html\"><p>There&rsquo;s no doubt, Shields says, that phones are still much safer from spying software than PCs, which allow software to be installed from any source, often invisibly, as in the case of &ldquo;drive-by downloads&rdquo; by infected Web pages or booby-trapped e-mail attachments. But the wide privileges given to phone apps still create exploitable vulnerabilities in devices, says Shields.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m <em>more<\/em> worried about software from the App Store. I don&rsquo;t believe Apple&rsquo;s screening process can offer significant protection, and the phone is so locked down that users can&rsquo;t easily audit what the apps are doing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Greenberg (via Nicolas Seriot): There&rsquo;s no doubt, Shields says, that phones are still much safer from spying software than PCs, which allow software to be installed from any source, often invisibly, as in the case of &ldquo;drive-by downloads&rdquo; by infected Web pages or booby-trapped e-mail attachments. But the wide privileges given to phone apps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}