Just kidding the its the flashlight app I only changed the title cause dissident was not going to look at my links.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/handy-light/id382075956?mt=8
Why was this app pulled.
Nick Lee’s Handy Light app, which looks like any other flashlight app that uses the iPhone’s screen to provide illumination, actually camouflages a tethering feature using the SOCKS proxy, à la Nullriver’s Software’s NetShare app that was available for a short time nearly two years ago. The app just hit the App Store a little while ago and costs a mere $.99.
For those unfamiliar with tethering, it allows you to use your iPhone’s cellular data connection on your computer or other devices via Wi-Fi. In the U.S., AT&T requires an additional $20 per month for this feature, and you must be on the most expensive data plan that costs $25 per month (unless you were grandfathered into the unlimited $30 data plan offered previously). We’ve tested the app and it works as advertised, bringing unofficial tethering to any iPhone running iOS 4.
Lee has posted a YouTube video demonstrating how the app works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwwWlvCJuMk&feature=player_embedded
In case you don’t want to watch the video, the instructions are as follows:
1.) Set up an ad hoc Wi-Fi network on your computer (network name and password requirement are not important).
2.) Connect to the Wi-Fi network you just created on your iPhone through the Settings/Wi-Fi menu.
3.) Tap on the blue arrow to the right of the selected Wi-Fi network, click Static in the IP Address menu and enter the following IP address and chuckle at its geek quotient: 13.37.13.37
4.) Next, enter 255.255.255.0 in the Subnet Mask field.
5.) Back out of the Settings menu to ensure these settings are saved (though hitting the Home button right away shouldn’t change them).
6.) Go to your Mac or PC and change the network settings to use the SOCKS Proxy and enter 13.37.13.37 as the Socks Proxy Server address and 1337 as the port.
Then open the flashlight app and type in a certain sequence of colors and it turns purple and the socks proxy is active. 🙂