I was checking the ATT site, which I know does lag some time behind in posting.
I haven't been using the MobiShield one long, but your post got me to looking a little more. It accesses the UDID, so I've trashed that one. It wasn't really doing much that DataMan doesn't already do.
--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@...> wrote:
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> On Mar 27, 2012, at 11:49 AM, a member wrote:
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> > I have been using both DataMan and MobiShield to monitor usage, even though I'm grandfathered into unlimited and shouldn't have to worry about it. Both of them show me with a different number than ATT shows right now, although I think MobiShield (about 10mb higher than ATT) may be closer to right than DataMan (about 65mb lower) due to the lag time on ATT's report.
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> I just went and looked at MobiShield, and I know I am a little paranoid, but I don't think I would use MobiShield, because:
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> It only has 17 reviews for all versions and has been out for more than 3 months. In comparison, the current version of DataMan has been out for 7 months and the current version has 304 reviews.
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> There are nine 5-star reviews. Most of the 4 and 5 star reviewers have funny names and one line reviews, and half the reviews say the app crashes.
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> 5 of this developers 7 apps are less than 4 months old and the 2 old ones don't have enough reviews to give a rating. Some have only Chinese versions.
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> If you go to the developers web site, it suggests that the iPhone has to be jailbroken to work.
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> The security scan is apparently one of the features that makes the app crash. Besides monitoring your 3G & WiFi usage, it checks your current connection IP address, MAC address (machine access code), OS, Kernel version, user name, and UUID. It will back up your data, but to where?
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> Why does it need to identify your exact phone for you?
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> Why does it need to know where you are connected?
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> Why does it need to tell you your own name? <<<<<<<<<<<<< ?!?!?!
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> And does it phone all this home?
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> I'm surprised this made it past Apple. The developer sure sounds like one of the app farms to me.
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> I'm sorry, but this sounds like spyware.
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> the other Brent
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