Security issues amid the popularity of Pokemon Go

Security issues amid the popularity of Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go reaping sensation and overrun a lot of circles. Imaginative games based map using GPS location real with Google Maps is combined with popular cartoon characters as well as the technology of augmented reality.

With high fever Pokemon Go, the server is often the maker as the Niantic gasping for air because it is unable to cope with the excess of access requests from users.

In fact before the Pokemon Go, GPS-based games have been launched by the Niantic by the name of Ingress in PlayStore and can be said to be quite successful because downloaded by more than 10 million users.

But compared with the Pokemon Go, the success of Ingress into meaningless, even if the note data base map and the location used by the Pokemon Go to use the data base map that is essentially the same as Ingress.

The player Pokemon Go far past the Ingres user. Could even say this phenomenal game Pokemon Go and managed to change the lifestyle on a previous stereotype that gamers are lazy and only a silent place engrossed with gadgetnya be fun wandering looking for Pokemon moves everywhere.

Perhaps due to nostalgia, Pokemon characters are extremely variable and typical cute Japan long familiar to fans of the cartoon and the players of this game's real role was the coach of Pokemon (Pokemon Trainer) Pokemon then the user Go it exploded.

"Security issues amid the popularity of Pokemon Go", The Issue Of The Securities

There are two problems that are feared by security practitioners, to other iOS are relatively more controlled because it does not allow installing applications from outside the iTunes application turns Pokemon Go is requesting exceptionally high and it really isn't necessary and by installing the Pokemon Go, Niantic has the right to:

-. Read the email user.

-. Sending an email from a user account.

-. Access all documents Google Drive including deleting documents.

·-. See the history of the use of map and navigation that you do.

When such access is not required to run the game Pokemon Go. But apparently the party is quite responsive and Niantic immediately provide clarification that the errors were not deliberate and the user data will not be misused and will soon do the repair.