Quite often, if you talk to Apple Fanboys about their iPhone, they say „but the apps are checked if they could cause any harm“. Well, here’s an example how thoroughly those apps are „checked“ – a simple ‚flashing light‘ app contained a network server that nobody in Cupertino noticed until engadget ran a story on this…
You may ask yourself, why on earth would anyone pay 99 cents for an iPhone app whose sole purpose is to flash bright, solid colors? We certainly wouldn’t recommend it, but Handy Light has a great little Easter egg that undoubtedly doesn’t jive with the folks at Cupertino HQ. Like Nullriver’s Netshare app before it, this little piece of software allows for SOCKS proxy tethering, without having to sign up for AT&T’s tethering plan.
via Handy Light for iPhone’s dirty little secret: tethering (update) — Engadget.
