{"id":24389,"date":"2019-02-21T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24389"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:14:17","slug":"how-apples-enterprise-app-program-became-the-new-wild-west-of-mobile-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/how-apples-enterprise-app-program-became-the-new-wild-west-of-mobile-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple&rsquo;s Enterprise App Program Became the New Wild West of Mobile Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/20\/18232583\/apple-ios-developer-enterprise-program-store-mobile-apps\">Nick Statt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/20\/18232583\/apple-ios-developer-enterprise-program-store-mobile-apps\">\n<p>But, as previous reports have found and according to multiple employees of large tech companies who spoke to <em>The Verge<\/em>, Apple&rsquo;s enterprise program contains few oversight protections that would prevent developers from abusing their certificates. It&rsquo;s not just Facebook and Google&rsquo;s egregious VPN apps or the occasional flagrant TV and movie torrent software, either. A trail of virtual breadcrumbs has since led reporters to unearth thousands of prohibited iOS apps, from gambling and porn software to pirated games and ad-free versions of Spotify. And it now looks as if an entire underground world of secretly sideloaded apps that violate Apple&rsquo;s terms are available direct to consumers &mdash; if you know where to look.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BalestraPatrick\/status\/1098334286732771328\">Patrick Balestra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BalestraPatrick\/status\/1098334286732771328\">\n<p>How Apple didn&rsquo;t yet shut down @TutuApp_vip literally blows my mind. They have 170K followers, a public website that with a single button installs an app signed with an enterprise certificate which includes a marketplace to install other apps? &#x1F92F;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/facebook-pays-teens-to-install-vpn-that-spies-on-them\/\">Facebook Pays Teens to Install VPN That Spies on Them<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Statt: But, as previous reports have found and according to multiple employees of large tech companies who spoke to The Verge, Apple&rsquo;s enterprise program contains few oversight protections that would prevent developers from abusing their certificates. It&rsquo;s not just Facebook and Google&rsquo;s egregious VPN apps or the occasional flagrant TV and movie torrent software, [&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":"2019-02-21T21:28:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"83d13cca-9c0c-49c1-bc54-37bac0d980da","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-10-15T19:14:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ag9E8ypwMScG8VDe6wNmA2g","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":[91,31,1610,26,2132],"class_list":["post-24389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-sideloading"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24389","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=24389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24390,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24389\/revisions\/24390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}