Imagine what sort of mischief Richard Nixon would have been able to get in to as president, if he’d had the sort of technologies available to him today. The Watergate scandal would have been child’s play compared to the sort of overt and covert tracking that could’ve been done on Nixon’s political opponents with today’s mobile technologies.
Last week a Ruby/iOS developer in Singapore, Arun Thampi, broke the story on his blog that the mobile app Path had been automatically (and without encryption) uploading ones address book en masse to their servers. The Gang discusses what happened and what it means as this one blog post exploded in to what Tim Elliott describes as “Pathgate.”
Who better to talk with us about this entire brouhaha than local mobile developer Justin Grammens of Recursive Awesome, now part of Code42 Software. We talk to him about this “gate” scandal, what else is going on in mobile development, and what you should fear about releasing (or not) with your mobile app.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: AjT & the song “Apple Chunk Guitar” from the podsafe Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:
- Path Scandal: The story that started it all and Path CEO: ‘We Thought We Were Doing This Right’ and Mike Arrington: HEY PATH, JUST NUKE ALL THE DATA
- Apple: Apple doesn’t enforce its own Address Book policy and iOS Address Book access should prompt the user for permission
- Pinterest Hits 10 Million U.S. Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever and Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don’t Recognize It and Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins and Pinterest is spamming your Facebook friends’ email with fake connection requests
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