Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"

http://9to5mac.com/2012/12/05/nsfw-apples-russian-itunes-launch-plagued-with-bug-displaying-escortpornography-sites/

by dbushell • 14 years ago

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danso• 14 years ago

> Update: most likely, the problem arises because of links: the people responsible for iTunes, put the “temporary” link type xx.xx.xx. That’s just such a site exists, and, as we have seen today, has nothing to do with the ideals of the company.Waiting for the fix.

This is certainly a new hallmark of lorem-ipsum-dummy-code-type error.

TazeTSchnitzel2• 14 years ago

The actual site in question seems to be http://xxx.xxx/ (NSFW, obviously)

Osmium• 14 years ago

Aren't there standards for this kind of thing? When you want a placeholder domain?

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid

drzaiusapelord• 14 years ago

I guess example.com isn't patent encumbered enough for itunes devs?

stephengillie• 14 years ago

They could try contoso.com :D

TazeTSchnitzel2• 14 years ago

You'd think they'd have the sense to use something like "example.com", which could never possibly have such content.

jonknee• 14 years ago

Or maybe apple.com, worst case you get some self promotion.

eps• 14 years ago

I used to work for a startup that used acmecorp.com in all their demos and all over the documentation. It turned out the company behind the domain name didn't really appreciate getting dozens upon dozens of "confirm your registration" emails... but they did say we weren't the only offenders.

mhurron• 14 years ago

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

danabramov3• 14 years ago

Ironic that our iOS app got rejected today for “mature themes”.

i386• 14 years ago

What is your app?

IheartApplesDix• 14 years ago

I bet it's some kind of portal that aggregates other content that you're not directly responsible for.

danabramov3• 14 years ago

It's a publishing platform for iPad. We got approved after adding a Report button.

We're not releasing it yet because a newer version is in the works. If you're curious, leave an email at http://stampsy.com and we'll ping you once we're in the App Store (it will be free).

JonSkeptic• 14 years ago

pics or it didn't happen

frozenport• 14 years ago

They didn't test it before deployment?!

diziet• 14 years ago

Apple had another similar issue with itunes searches that they just recently fixed -- searches for taboo words returning a lot of results:

http://blog.appstorerankings.net/blog/2012/10/28/itunes-sear...

Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"

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