I hadn’t had a chance to try Aurora Feint before it was ripped from the iTune’s App Store but many people (including recent IPod Touch adoptee Doug) love the game.

It seems a little tiny, tiny security hole made Aurora Feint’s use of the location feature potentially problematic. Not a big issue, just a small one like…

…uploading a player’s entire contact list to their server via an unencrypted data pipe. Yup, if you wanted to use the nifty “find your friends who are playing the game” feature your entire contact list was left naked and open while it traveled to their server. Ooops!

Apparently this has already been fixed and the game is back in review for re-entry to the App store but it leaves one to wonder… has the damage to early players already been done? And, what other security issues have been introduced with some of the other 1000 apps already available?

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