Go ahead and freak out, iPhoners

Path is a relatively new social network that has garnered a lot of critical praise. But it turns out the iPhone app is gathering info from address books, and transmitting it back, unencrypted. Also, the booming app economy is a jobs bonanza.

It's called Path and it's a new social network with a couple of very big differences to Facebook. First, it's more of a photo sharing service than…