Apple Stealth Piracy App Trio, Combined Age 215 Years, Face $18.5m Damages Claim (torrentfreak.com)

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Hidden pirate features within seemingly harmless apps, known as "stealth apps," are slipping past Apple's App Store security, offering users access to pirated movies and TV shows. Taiwan's Criminal Police Bureau recently busted three individuals promoting unlock instructions for these apps to roughly 400,000 users. Surprisingly, this tech-savvy scheme was orchestrated by a group whose combined age totals 215 years.

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[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago

Combined age? Combined age. COMBINED AGE!

[-] Grunt4019@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Makes me think the article was written by AI.

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

Liang – 73 years old
Shen – 62 years old
Lin – 80 years old

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 19 points 1 week ago

Interesting piece, didn't know about iOS stealth apps, and the ages of the accused certainly makes the news stand out —

— but can we talk about that hilariously bad "AI" generated picture they chose to illustrate it? That disembodied hand left of centre holding up the "iPhone"?

WHO WAS PHONE? 😄