Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

Re:Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN by why_only_15 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:11AM (#19032867)

I mean it depends on what you mean by "possible". I'm pretty sure Apple has the technical capability to delete apps over the air. The more interesting question is what they're willing to do: are they willing to pull FB from every iPhone? I don't think so.

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Re:Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN by morpheuskafka on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:50AM (#19036017)

If nothing else they could issue an iOS update that permanently bans the trusted root certificate, erases all apps, and directly blacklists the Facebook certs. Heck, they could even block connections to facebook servers at the MAC layer if they wanted to. And they could require users to install it to get future updates. Of course, that would never happen.

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Re:Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN by cottsak on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:23AM (#19032923)

Apple can remove the app from the App Store but I'm pretty sure they can't delete apps over the air from a given phone.

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Re:Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN by colek42 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:32AM (#19032951)

If they can OTA update the OS they can delete whatever they want, all they need to do is call the internal API that deletes apps.

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