
In the intervening time, the app has remained available, touching off a series of exchanges among Tor members about how to respond. The ticket went on to say that Tor officials notified Apple of the fake Tor Browser app in December.

“Tor Browser in the Apple App Store is fake,” a report ticket published two months ago on the Tor website by high-ranking volunteer Phobos stated. The report notes that high-ranking members of Tor anonymity service have already complained that the app is a fake, but it still available for download. As pointed out by Ars Technica, a fake iOS app named ‘Tor Browser’, which is full of adware / spyware, has been sitting in the App Store since November and hasn’t yet been removed by Apple, raising questions about the vetting process of what the critics refer to as the company’s walled garden.
