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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by objclxt on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:05AM (#7101256)
The one rather glaring fly in your ointment is that if your system was as secure as you make it out to be you wouldn't have been asking users to change their iCloud passwords after your database was compromised a few months ago.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/3/5061136/sunrise-calendar-a...

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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by aroch on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @09:09AM (#7102562)
In fairness, changing your password also deactivates any login tockens associated with the old password.
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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by lockmovdwordptr on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:22AM (#7101294)
I guess they have done that for triggering a reset of the validity of the "apple token" that was compromised.
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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by rismay on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @10:37AM (#7103146)
If you delete the app, this won't remove the account from sunrise's system then?
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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by tannerc on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @11:15AM (#7103498)
There is no way for app developers to know which users have deleted the app from their device.
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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by jhgg on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @11:51PM (#7107036)
Not exactly true. If you send a push notification to a device using a token of an app that isn't installed anymore, the feedback service will let you know that the app isn't installed on the device anymore[0].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...

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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by leviathan on Thursday January 23, 2014 @08:21AM (#7107946)
What about users who didn't allow location services to begin with?
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Re:Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID ... by nathancahill on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:14AM (#7101280)
Ouch.
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