Today, Florida-based Retina-X Studios has announced a piece of commercial spyware for the iPad. Called Mobile Spy, the software sits on your iPad and silently logs all email, web browsing and even contacts added to the device. This information is uploaded to your online account where you can pry and snoop on the information at your leisure.
It looks like Retina-X is pitching this at the business market, for bosses to keep an eye on their employees. Check out this quote from the press release:
You have that right. Derrick is spying and reading somebody's email because he doubts their honesty. What about your honesty, Derrick?
The software and service, also available for Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile, will cost you $100 per year. If you're like me, you will immediately run a search for this on the App Store. Don't bother, because you won't find it there. Mobile Spy will only work on jailbroken iPads: "This is because iPad is not able to run more than one program at a time unless it is jailbroken," reads the excuse on the product page.
Retina-X is pitching a business solution based on hacking your hardware. Further, it wants you to crack your iPad, load on third party software which uploads confidential user to the web silently and undetectably, and it then wants you to trust it not to do anything nefarious with this information.
I think its a great idea. If you do decide to buy it, feel free to also quickly jot down your credit card and bank details and mail them to me at the address above. Don't forget the passwords!
IPad Mobile Spy [Mobile Spy]
First iPad Spy Software Hits the Market [PR Newswire]
