Passcode stealing app banned by Apple

Amitay is IT's Mother Teresa! OK, maybe he's just a mother.

My phone won't allow anyone to use it unless they have Alpha Two clearance accessed only by a terminal on the main bridge.
Picard out!

A 4 digit Passcode is no where near as secure as a full 16+ alphanumeric password, which you can enable.

I think Apple should do more than ban the app. I think the developer should be waterboarded and beaten until he's dead and quite pulpy.

There was no passcode stealing in his app, from what I read. His app had a feature to protect parts of the app with it's own passcode, and these are the passcodes that he used to compile his data. His assumption is that most users probably use the same passcode in his app that they use for the device, which is probably true.

Still, this is a bit shady -- even if it is an allowed behavior by the App Store rules (which he contends is with his latest blog post).

An app with a data mining component was banned. The sensationalism of this whole thing is a bit much.

Yeah, his app even without the passcode mining parts still stinks outright and have no place in the App Store. This guy, why did he think he could do good through doing bad? The good won't make up for you doing bad, dumbass.

Do you really need to collect data first to warn someone that 0000 or 1234 isn't a secure passcode?