Mac OS Ken: 12.28.2015

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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- vShare: Using Apple Tools to Power a Pirated App Store - Oregon Police Uncover Link in Black Market iPhone Chain - Home Office Says Investigatory Powers Bill Could Fight Trolls and Cyber-Bullies - China Passes Potentially Troubling Encryption Key Legislation - Fitbit App Hits Number One in Free Apps Over Christmas Weekend - Apple Seeks Additional $180-Million in Original Samsung Patent Case - Apple Launches Boxing Week iTunes Sales in Canada and UK - Have you subscribed to EYE Chart Radio Yet? You should! Find it in iTunes! - lynda.com: Learn Apple software, plus business and creative skills, from easy-to-follow video tutorials at . - Send me an email: or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:12.0	Hindering some pirates, busting a black market iPhone ring, and the encryption battles
0:17.4	rage on.
0:19.5	It's Monday the 28th of December 2015, I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS Ken brought to you
0:27.4	by yours truly and sponsored by Linda.com. The online learning platform with over 4,000 on-demand video courses.
0:36.0	Start your free 10-day trial at Linda.com slash Maco-Scan.
0:42.0	There was an interesting tale of pirated apps last week.
0:47.0	Apple Insider highlights a report from CNN Money which covered the workings of V-Share. V-Share has apparently been popular with segments of the jailbreak community for a while now,
0:57.0	though, at least until recently, the outfit was offering pirated versions of well-known applications with no
1:03.8	jailbreak required. According to the report like other recent pirated
1:08.0	app services, B-Share is built on Apple's enterprise licensing
1:12.0	technology.
1:13.0	Design for corporations or other entities with large iOS device deployments,
1:17.0	Apple developer enterprise certificates allow license holders to provision their own apps for internal distribution and download.
1:26.5	The piece continues.
1:27.5	In the case of V-Share, the service used purchased certificates to create a trusted app available for download via the web that acts as its own
1:35.7	illegitimate app store.
1:37.9	Security researchers at Proofpoint told CNN money that V-Share obtained four Apple developer enterprise certificates to
1:43.8	accomplish this task. Proof Point has informed Apple of its findings.
1:48.3	And that seems to have closed this particular door for the time being.
1:53.0	As of its report, Apple Insider says attempts to install the V-Share application on machines
1:58.1	running iOS 8 or iOS 9 met with failure, suggesting that Apple has invalidated V-Share's provision certificates.
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