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Re:“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil... by chinhodado on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:22AM (#12223374)
It feels quite strange. The app is supposedly made by a single person, who decided to... unpublish the app because it was too popular? And then, he kept a central server up and running to support the app nearly two years after that? There are 1951 user ratings for an average of 4 stars, and the creator claimed that there were about 1M users, yet hardly anyone has heard of it? The app also doesn't seem to have any ads from the screenshots.
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Re:“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil... by niftich on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:38AM (#12223416)
Do you have the domain name used for the central server? I doubt a whois is very enlightening, but it's another thread to track down.
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Re:“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil... by xorcist on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:19AM (#12224192)
A consequence of unpublishing the app is that the user has to check "allow untrusted sources". That could in turn be practical if your goal is to install spyware (unless byLock itself contains the spyware which might be too obvious).
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