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Note: Hacker finds way to loot in-app store items and posts a how-to on YouTube.
10 Gorgeous Apps For New iPad (click image for larger view and forslideshow)A Russian hacker has managed to find a way around the security checks in Apple's in-app purchasing system to make content sold in iOS apps available for free.
The hacker, identifying himself as ZonD80, has posted a YouTube video demonstrating how he was able to create an in-app proxy that authorizes in-app purchases at no cost.
"To buy in-app content," he says in the video,"you must install two certificates and set the IP address of the DNS to a specific IP."