HT202739: Product security certifications, validations, and guidance for iOS
Learn about Product security certifications, validations, and guidance for iOSQ: This website installs an app straight onto my iPad. Is it safe? http://www.mythware.com/products/classroom-management-for-ios/clas ... This website installs an app straight onto my iPad. Is it safe? http://www.mythware.com/products/classroom-management-for-ios/classroom-managem ent-for-ios-technical-specs.html more
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Feb 6, 2014 2:37 PM in response to AndyPeby varjak paw,It's not possible for any site to install a true app on your iPad. The only place to get apps is from the iTunes Store. That site is only setting a web app, and those are usually safe since they have little access to any part of the device. I have no experience with this particular one, though, so I can't comment about it specifically, but Intel works with them and I can't imagine Intel would work with a shady company.
Regards.
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Feb 6, 2014 3:07 PM in response to varjak pawby AndyPe,@Varjak
I can assure that it installs and I was given a warning not to open the app.
"Are you sure you want to open the application "Classroom" from Developer: "iPhone Distribution: Nanjing Universal Networks Co., Ltd"?
Continue or Quit
Try it yourself if you don't believe me. I would rather that somebody from Apple did it in safe environment.
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Feb 6, 2014 3:12 PM in response to AndyPeby varjak paw,★HelpfulI did try it. Again, it's a web app, not a true iOS app. And again, Intel resells their products - it's Intel's Learning Series Classroom Management - so the company would seem trustworthy. If you don't know what a web app is and how it differs, see:
But you're not sure, then don't install that web app.
Regards.
Message was edited by: varjak paw
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Feb 7, 2014 12:27 PM in response to varjak pawby AndyPe,@Varjak - appreciate your help. For benefit of the forum I also was given this feedback elsewhere -
It’s using standard iOS wireless app distribution. This is the URL behind that Install button - itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://www.mythware.com/ios/V1.0/ClassRoom.plist
To do remote locking on an un-jailbroken phone, then it has to be using the iOS MDM API. When it runs, you are accepting their deployment certificate and enrolling to their MDM server – [this is an unverified assumption].
Apple would reject an app that enrolled you to an MDM server, so they are having to deploy like this.