Apple is pretty serious about the quality of Apps it allows at the Appstore. And the developers of the game Aurora Feint learnt that the hard way. Apparently the iPhone SDK allows the applications to look through your contacts on the iPhone (ofcourse with your consent) and use it accordingly. Here Aurora Feint used this feature to check whether any of your friends was online playing the same game. But in the process it transferred your contacts (DATA) without any encryption i.e. as a plain TEXT to its servers.
For anyone who cares for his vital data would go crazy listening this (UNENCRYPTED !!). While this is a mere oversight (negligence) from the game developers, Apple has acted tough and removed the App from the Appstore. For me this adds one more reason to rely on official iPhone 2.0 apps over the unofficial (jailbreaking) apps.
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