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Re:Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature... by kazazes on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:12PM (#8413859)
While some of the more sensationalist parts of this were debunked, here [1] is the article that goes over a critical (non-technical) analysis of the binary itself.

The app uses some private Apple APIs, including capturing the SSID of your wireless network.

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/facebooks-messenger-a...

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Re:Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature... by eli on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:18PM (#8413873)
I thought Apple automatically scanned and rejected apps for private API usage
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Re:Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature... by teej on Sunday October 05, 2014 @10:31PM (#8414077)
They do. You can get around this with a little trickery, since they just scan for calls to specific method signatures.
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Re:Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature... by eli on Monday October 06, 2014 @10:57AM (#8416186)
I find it surprising that Apple puts up with blatant and conscious violations of their rules from such a high profile app.
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Re:Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature... by mschuster91 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:31PM (#8413893)
Most likely FB will have an exception agreement with Apple. With their amounts of cash they can easily buy anything...
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