Privacy and Security Updates:
    • Visible notification BEFORE participating in the opt-in community feature.
    • All network communication is now securely encrypted using https
    • No data from your contact list is saved on your phone’s hard drive

Overall, it seems like the security issues have been resolved. I personally like this game and will continue to play it. Let us know in the comments what you think. You can also check out Aurora Feint’s forum for more info about the game. Also, for those of you who are not familiar with Aurora Feint, below is a demo video. It does not have any audio but you will at least get a feel for the game.

Click here to download Aurora Feint via the App Store.

Remember that Aurora Feint Puzzle/RPG game that we told you we liked? Turns out we don’t like it anymore. In fact, we’re actually pretty damn scared of this app, seeing as Apple de-listed them from the App Store due to privacy and security issues. To the developer’s credit, they were forthright with what they did and didn’t do.

According to their forums, if you opt-in to the community feature, Aurora Feint looks through your contact list, sends it unencrypted to their servers, and matches you up with your friends who are currently playing right now. Great feature, for sure, but that whole looking through our contact list and sending it in plain text to your server is cause for us to go OMGWTFBBQ.

“When we discovered that the Apple SDK allowed us to look through your contact list we thought it would be a great idea to automatically show you which friends are playing the game. Why automatically? Well, everyone always complains about the keyboard on the iPhone and how annoying it is to type on it. So we thought, “Hey, why don’t we make this feature REALLY easy to use – no typing!” And such, the community feature was born. Some people have said that it would have been ok if we had a better notice explaining what was going on. I agree! We weren’t trying to be sneaky about how this worked. It was just overlooked. No one we showed it to even asked a question about it – nor did we. It just simply never came up as a potential issue when we beta tested the game with early users.”

Upside is, if you didn’t use the community feature, you’re OK.

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