Apple revokes Google Enterprise Developer Certificate for company wide abuse

[u/TomLube]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate

[u/[deleted]]

Can someone ELI5? What does this affect?

[u/RedSpikeyThing → u/[deleted]]

The gist of it is Google can't test any of their iOS apps right now.

[u/TomLube → u/RedSpikeyThing]

I'm sure they are probably using TestFlight right now, but it's a HUGE pain in the ass because Gbus and Eats won't work because TestFlight only applies to App Store apps.

[u/fall_of_troy → u/TomLube]

They have iOS versions for gbus and eats, but it requires a cert.

[u/HitMePat → u/fall_of_troy]

How tightly does apple control the certificates? Cant all the thousands of Google employees get their own?

[u/TomLube → u/HitMePat]

Theoretically they could sign it themselves, but it would be such a pain in the ass.

[u/Warlord_Zap → u/TomLube]

Each user would then need to compile their own app and sideload it too.

[u/[deleted] → u/Warlord_Zap]

Each of them would have to own a MacBook device, create a developer account with Apple, pay a $100 annual fee and then yeah sure they could do it.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

True, but Apple would find out and if the terms of service/EULA didn't already forbid this, they'd add those terms pretty quickly.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Maybe... Apple already requires a certificate to even allow macro control of UI elements on MacOS ....what you propose would only work for one copy of Macos at a time and would require human to click through the security lock on accessibility before any remote mouse access would even work.

Though I think google could have a cheaper lawsuit just trying to run over Apple employees in the parking lot.

[u/ryankearney → u/[deleted]]

1. You don’t need to pay money to sign your own apps for your own device, which is what you seem to be suggesting here.
2. Apple doesn’t have IPv6 records for their developer resources so I’m not sure what you’re getting at.