Mobile App Publisher hacks users' Twitter accounts

[Devin]

Jenn Frank of Infinite Lives reports that Enfour, the company that publishes the $55 Oxford English Dictionary mobile phone app, accused her of pirating the app and that the app hijacked her Twitter account and started autoposting tweets that Jenn is a software thief. And Jenn's not the only victim of Enfour's reputation-damaging witch hunt. Enfour says it's some sort of DRM that appeared by accident for "legitimate users". Users are said to have the option to link their Twitter account to the app. Allowing them access.

Source
#softwarepirateconfession Twitter

 

[Foxi4]

It's not hacking if you willingly input your login information - it is going a good few steps too far though.

 

[Gahars]

Sheesh, talk about aggressive Enfourcement.

 

[Foxi4]

Sheesh, talk about aggressive Enfourcement.

Well, you know how the story goes. They were told by a little bird about some piracy issues and then this happens.

 

[Rydian]

Guys...

One user did deny Enfour this permission request, and he discovered that Oxford booted him from the software entirely.
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Enfour has since admitted there was a “glitch” that caused “false positives” in the software. What’s especially harrowing, though, is that Enfour apparently mined the data in the iPhone itself in an effort to determine, not whether Enfour’s own software is pirated, but whether any software on the iOS device is pirated.

 

[Foxi4]

*info*

Aw, shuckles...

So, practically, you don't input your login details in the application itself - it gets it via phishing cross spyware? Well, I'm pretty sure that's illegal and someone's in a world of trouble now.

They should get sued for this - I wonder how they'd tweet then.

 

[emigre]

I imagine Enfour feel like twats.


Am I doing it properly?

 

[Foxi4]

I imagine Enfour feel like twats.


Am I doing it properly?

Yes, yes you are.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Everyday it seems like the User Submitted News section is becoming more like the User Submitted Puns section.

 

[Foxi4]

Everyday it seems like the User Submitted News section is becoming more like the User Submitted Puns section.

I'm pretty sure that posting puns is not a punishable offense, unlike phishing for account data and posting on someone's tweeter - that kind of enfource should be punishable.

I'm on freaking fire!

 

[emigre]

Everyday it seems like the User Submitted News section is becoming more like the User Submitted Puns section.

Gahars has infected us all.

 

[pyromaniac123]

I'm pretty sure that posting puns is not a punishable offense, unlike phishing for account data and posting on someone's tweeter - that kind of enfource should be punishable.

I'm on freaking fire!

That was awful.

 

[Gahars]

The puntagion spreads fast.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Gahars has infected us all.

It must be airborne.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Thanks for posting this, Devin.

And you guys really make me miss Ace Gunman with these threads....

 

[notmeanymore]

I think the most appalling part of this thread is that the Oxford Dictionary app is $55.

 

[Hells Malice]

Everyday it seems like the User Submitted News section is becoming more like the User Submitted Puns section.

They're called Werehars and you ARE allowed to kill them on sight.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

I'm officially dubbing this Pun epidemic as the G-Virus.

 

[DaggerV]

And people wonder why I have a huge disdain for a lot of things, shit like this.

 

[Qtis]

Read about this a couple of weeks ago on Ars. An interesting point is that it seemed to check if the phone was jailbroken and then check for an app that makes it possible to install "pirated" apps. This led to quite a few flagged users and then this happens:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...er-accounts-post-false-confessions-of-piracy/