{"id":3927,"date":"2011-07-09T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2011-07-08T22:37:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T21:37:48","slug":"hustle-2-0-with-android-apps-and-premium-rate-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/hustle-2-0-with-android-apps-and-premium-rate-text-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Hustle 2.0 with Android apps and premium rate text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ew4n\">The Other Ewan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the app asked the user for \u2018control\u2019 over their SMS messages during install and then sent the premium SMS requests itself? It wouldn\u2019t surprise me. This is a lot worse than the standard scams that rely on a poorly worded advert in some newspaper to sort-of trick unwitting consumers. Somebody actually *programmed* an app to deliberately hose people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why companies like Apple and Nokia want to have the approval process on the applications in their smartphone eco-systems (and it&#8217;ll make good copy for the anti-virus developers as well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Other Ewan. I wonder if the app asked the user for \u2018control\u2019 over their SMS messages during install and then sent the premium SMS requests itself? It wouldn\u2019t surprise me. This is a lot worse than the standard scams that rely on a poorly worded advert in some newspaper to sort-of trick unwitting consumers. Somebody actually *programmed* an app to deliberately hose people. This is why companies like Apple and Nokia want to have the approval process on the applications in their smartphone eco-systems (and it&#8217;ll make good copy for the anti-virus developers as well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25],"tags":[2217,2578,2579,605],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-android","tag-hustle","tag-premium-rate","tag-spam","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-11l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}