Regardless of the reasons, it seems like several big businesses are distancing themselves from WikiLeaks as fast as they can. This week, a third-party WikiLeaks app was removed from the Apple App Store for an alleged terms of service violation. Despite that, the app was bought over 4,000 and the developer will be donating $1 per download to WikiLeaks themselves.
Not sure how WikiLeaks themselves feels about it, but it seems a bit disingenuous that some random developer was making a WikiLeaks app on his own and taking some profit from it. He’s fully disclosed how much he’s made from it ($5,840) and how much he will donate to WikiLeaks ($4,443).
Some WikiLeaks supporters likely believe that Apple pulled the app due to CIA intervention or some other form of government pressure, but it seems the app was in violation of Apple’s App Store terms of service, section 21.1 which says:
Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free.
As I said in the open, I find it slightly distasteful that this chap is profiting from a charitable app, and so I must agree with Apple’s decision to pull it from their store. No word on if the developer, Russian Igor Barinov, will take his app to the Android Market. Many have suggested that, and the open Android Market hosts many WikiLeaks readers already.
To Barniov’s credit (and in the theme of WikiLeaks), he has made all metrics regarding his app, including how many times it was downloaded and how much money he made.
It’s not all roses for the PS3 following further developments on the thriving PS3 hacking front today, as the group responsible for the Wii’s Homebrew Channel, going by the slightly counter-intuitive moniker of fail0verflow have turned their attention to Sony‘s pride and joy and have summarily proceeded to strip it of its secrets. If you go by their word, at least.
The hack apparently enables them to gain “full control of the PS3 system,” not as a means to illegally reduced video game expenditures you see, but solely in the interests of enabling every PS3 firmware and variant to run Linux. And here we were asking ourselves why it took four years for people to hack this thing. There’s probably a lesson here, somewhere, Sony. Something about giving people what they want or the ones who can will just take it. And never ever give them what they want, then take it away again, unless you want your “Private keys” in the press. Something along those lines.
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