Your kidding you had to wait a whole 60 minutes, that's almost an entire hour. Well, I hope you recover from your trauma.
How many nurses do you need for your flu shot? One to hold your hand, one to process your insurance paperwork, one to tell you everything will be okay and then one to give you the shot?
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Yeah, terrible that 99.99% of the country isn't have problems. I guess we should throw the whole thing in the trash for the
Come on, don't fall for the press' coverage of only negative news and then paint the entire picture that color.
That is just plain silly. How many support calls do you think they dev would get when a paranoid user denies access to the internet for a twitter client. Come on, this is nothing but FUD; all operating systems access stuff; most mobile OS will tell you what it is going to do. If you don't like the permissions it is request, then don't install the app.
Most of your 'free' software, even the apps that don't use the internet, are ad-supported, which does need the internet. If you don't like that, then purchase the full app or again, don't install it.
Finally, I have to agree with the statement in the article that many of the permissions that are used are just poor development practices. For example; maybe the dev was testing storing data on the SD card, decided not to do it, but failed to remove the permissions from the manifest. The app would show that it still needs access to the SD card, but the program never actually uses.
Another way to help protect yourself; don't always run as root -- amazing how many of the people here complain about the permissions, then essentially give every app full permissions to their phone. These are the same people that use the same password on every site and run their PC OS as root too.
Excellent, run your phone rooted so when you do sideload a malicious app it will have full access to your phone.
I agree, unions are awesome. I allows mediocre employees to receive the same compensation as the excellent employees.
Most Americans are afraid of whatever is in the news the most. If they researched either topic even a little bit they wouldn't be afraid of either.
Free? You are paying for it, they just tell you it is free. If it were free, then you would pay zero taxes and they would still provide those services to you. Oh wait, you mean like low-income families in America.
Nothing worth anything is free......
You can't use that strategy in two cases. First, if it is a manned mission, you can't just 'hope' it doesn't fail. It must NOT fail. Second, when you invest in a program to send a spacecraft on a ten year mission (ie. surveying Pluto) you can't have it fail when it arrives. What, then start over and wait another ten years? The strategy that you are advocating is due to a lack of two things; the lack of engineering expertise and lack of funding to properly execute a space program. Don't mistake those shortfalls for a better engineer program.
The URL is not encrypted when it travels over SSL (https), nether is anything on the request string. So, if you ever see something https://myfavoritebankingsite.com?username=sillyperson&password=1234 then you need to know that the username and password are sent in the 'clear'. Just to be clear, I mean unencrypted.
If the URL was encrypted then the packet would have to wander across the entire network hoping to find its destination.
Do you really think that the carrier doesn't already know that information? Your ISP does get that information; it has to route your packets using something other than magic fairy dust. They even use that information to shape their traffic and optimize their proxy servers.
So do those 3rd party SMS apps, email clients, dialers, etc. This is strange or unusual; it just got a lot of press.
err, Silk.....
Go to jail over what? Nobody has really proved anything. Driving a car is dangerous under any scenario; someone should go to jail over this!
Bottom line, knee jerk report about stuff showing up in the logcat; research done. I didn't see anyone listening on the wire to see what was actually being sent, how it was being sent or give Carrier IQ and the carriers a chance to explain. It was just people with pitchforks and torches.
Haha, this post reminds me of the commercial where the girl is talking about her parents and the internet; where she read an article, well part of an article......
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
