Comment Re:Who knew? (Score 1) 167
Who said that *working* with someone had to be fun?
Working is not gaming. Many developer are not teenagers anymore and prefer doing interesting things over "funny" things.
Comment Re:Check for the signed label! (Score 1) 340
iPhone apps can definitely NOT poke around other apps' data, nor the system.
Yes, they can! http://seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/iPhonePrivacy.pdf
Submission + - iPhone Privacy Issues (seriot.ch)
Ardisson writes: Swiss iPhone developer Nicolas Seriot presented last night a talk on iPhone Privacy in Geneva. He showed how a malicious application could harvest personal data on a non jailbroken iPhone and without using private APIs. It turns out that the email accounts, the keyboard cache content and the wifi connection logs are fully accessible. The talk puts up several recommandations. There is also a demo project on github http://github.com/nst/spyphone/.
Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows Subpoena 175
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Arista v. Does 1-17, the RIAA's case targeting students at the University of Oregon, the Oregon Attorney General's motion to quash the RIAA's subpoena — pending for about a year — has reached a perplexing conclusion. The Court agreed with the University that the subpoena, as worded, imposed an undue burden on the University by requiring it to produce 'sufficient information to identify alleged infringers,' which would have required the University to 'conduct an investigation,' but then allowed the RIAA to subpoena the identities of 'persons associated by dorm room occupancy or username with the 17 IP addresses listed' even though those people may be completely innocent. In his 8-page decision (PDF), the Judge also 'presumed' the RIAA lawyers' misrepresentations were an 'honest mistake,' made no reference at all to the fact, pointed out by the Attorney General, that the RIAA investigators (Safenet, formerly MediaSentry) were not licensed, rejected all of the AG's privacy arguments under both state and federal law, and rejected the AG's request for discovery into the RIAA's investigative tactics."
