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October 19, 2011 ⌥

The Secret Business of Select iOS Apps ⇥

It’s shocking how prevalent this stuff is, especially since Flurry pissed off Steve Jobs. A number of applications submit user information over plain text (or barely-encoded text), and download images of a preposterously enormous size.

This is really basic stuff, people.

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