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Daniel Amitay
Personal blog · danielamitay.com/blog · on HN as danielamitayprogrammingsecurity
Daniel Amitay's personal blog at danielamitay.com covers programming and security. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How to Detect Installed iOS Apps (2011)”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Amitay's posts on how iOS apps can detect which other apps are installed, using URL schemes, and on a 2015 post about shutting down a project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Detect Installed iOS Apps (2011)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-30
- Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-29
What Hacker News says?
Twitter does something shady to get a list of the installed apps on the device. http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/2/16/how-to-detect-install...
Comment linking /blog/2011/2/16/how-to-detect-installed-ios-apps
on “$80k/month App Store Scam”Submitted Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month as a story · 104 points
HN discussionApps can register custom URL schemes to enable other apps to open them, pass them data and even deep-link to within them. There is an official API called canOpenUrl: which will let you check if a particular URL scheme is registered on a particular device. So that, along with a database of public URL schemes published by other apps, lets you detect which apps are installed. I wasn't aware of this before but apparentl…
Comment linking /blog/2011/2/16/how-to-detect-installed-ios-apps
on ““We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.””Submitted Big Brother Camera Security Returns To The App Store as a story · 2 points
HN discussionApple should ban the app for this, right? http://danielamitay.com/blog/2015/5/29/shutting-down-a-500mm...
Comment linking /blog/2015/5/29/shutting-down-a-500mm-requestsmonth-api
on ““We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.””Submitted How to Detect Installed iOS Apps (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs far as I know, they incorporated information from a similar dataset I created back in mid-2011 [1]. [1] http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/6/13/most-common-iphone-pa...
Comment linking /blog/2011/6/13/most-common-iphone-passcodes
on “This $200 3D printed bot can crack your phone's PIN in 20 hours”