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Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by tptacek on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:06PM (#29571643)
You're asking me? Ok: it should not be possible for you to install surreptitious screen recording software on an iPhone. The problem isn't that this app got blocked; it's that all the other ones (except maybe that one app that only records screenshots when you use their browser) aren't banned.

But this is totally besides the point. We're not discussing what Apple's rules ought to be. We're trying to help figure out what they are. That's what the author of this app asked us to do.

Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by jtbayly on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:18PM (#29571750)
This is what you wrote that I was responding to: "cards on the table: none of these apps should be allowed on the app store."

I'm hoping you've simply not really thought this through. We can't demand that parents be held accountable for what their children do while also forbidding parents from knowing what their children are reading, watching, writing, hearing, or saying.

Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by JadeNB on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:45PM (#29573014)
> We can't demand that parents be held accountable for what their children do while also forbidding parents from knowing what their children are reading, watching, writing, hearing, or saying.

There's no reason that knowledge has to be garnered surreptitiously. (If your answer is "if it's not surreptitious, then kids will try to bypass it" … well, they will anyway.)

Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by jtbayly on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @11:00PM (#29574642)
Nobody said it had to be surreptitious. And the app we are all discussing is explicitly not surreptitious. If you go back and reread the original ask HN comment, he says that it is visible.
Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by JadeNB on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:28AM (#29579977)
> Nobody said it had to be surreptitious.

The comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29571643) to which you were responding (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29571750) says:

> You're asking me? Ok: it should not be possible for you to install surreptitious screen recording software on an iPhone.

Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by camhart on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:24PM (#29571822)
> it should not be possible for you to install surreptitious screen recording software on an iPhone.

I agree with this 100%. It should not be possible on any platform. Key word there being surreptitious.

To clarify, your comments are about iOS apps. Look at their MacOS apps, and it's a different story. The capture the entire devices screen, not just the web browser. And several competitors do it.

Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by jtbayly on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:01PM (#29572154)
FTA: “I've made sure since day one that a "reasonably suspicious" notification is present when the app is monitoring.”

So are you still sure I should never be allowed to run this code on my phone?