Every framework your app can access needs access to its own user defaults store. This left tons of side channels for any app to pick up things like phone number, email address and real name. Any library you include in your app could then yonk all of this without you the app developer knowing about it.
- Pre-show:
- Follow-up:
- Synology Dynamic DNS
- Marco’s security camera update
- Some interesting research on memory and caching from Akshay Narayan
- App Store to require developers to describe API use
- John’s annual post-vacation tradition
#askatp
:
- What are we dropping down to UIKit for? (from Aaron Bushnell)
- What does John think of the α6700? (from David Campbell)
- Why is my experience of social networks so different from what I hear you describe? (from Ben Gunsberger)
- Post-show: [Some] weird things that Casey does
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