Aurora Feint has been delisted form the App Store because they grabbed your contacts and uploaded them to their server unencrypted. What the fuck?
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.
Wow, I don’t know about you, but my top-hat and monocle fell off after reading this. I am in the process of recurling my mustache right now. At least they were trying to cause harm to the user, they are just shotty programmers not thinking they were going to become popular.
Hopefully they fix this and make it right.