I stumbled upon this page today. It seems that the extremely popular iPhone/iPod touch game Aurora Feint creates a copy of your contacts (e-mail addresses + phonenumbers) and hides this in a ’secret’ directory on your iPhone. This in an of itself is a bit suspect, but alarm bells really began to go off when someone noticed that AF was sending that information to the Aurora Feint servers as well.

Personally i really don’t like to have hidden features like this in my (i)Phone. I know i jailbroke my device and installed lot’s of free open-source app’s but most of the time i did check the directory’s for hidden files or something else. The big problem i have with this is that Apple says that they ’screen’ the applications before allowing them on to the App Store. Maybee AF was screened on a monday or friday? Anyway i still love the App Store but i will check every app that i install on to my iPhone.