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Gaming the App Store 217

Posted by kdawson
from the burning-your-knees-on-astroturf dept.
space_in_your_face writes "Want to boost the popularity of your latest iPhone app? Ask Reverb Communications! 'When it comes to winning in the App Store, this PR firm has discovered a dynamite strategy: throw ethics out the window. Reverb Communications, a PR firm that represents dozens of game publishers and developers, has managed to find astounding success on Apple's App Store for its clients. Among its various tactics? It hires a team of interns to trawl iTunes and other community forums posing as real users, and has them write positive reviews for their client's applications. ... Reverb claims that their clients have sold over $2 billion of product under their watch.'"
Security

Can New York Times cause Identity Thefts ?

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Vishal Mishra
Vishal Mishra writes "This is regarding a recent and very well written New York Times story on SlashDot, about Identity Thefts. While the story provides a lot of useful information, it also directs users to a search site developed by a company TrustedID, that can help people know if they have already been a victim of identity fraud. This site can potentially steal social security numbers by the way it collects SSN for verification against its database. The site does not use hashing at all, but instead requires customers to send SSN or credit card information unhashed. Here is a link to the blog describing the attack and the right secured way to build such search sites — http://vmtech.blogspot.com"

Comment: RIP republic, Hello fascism (Score 1, Interesting) 150

by Jelloman (#16699623) Attached to: Former CA Boss Gets 12 Years, $8M Fine
Here's an analogy to express my feelings on this: I'm drinking in a bar. Outside, people are walking the streets, beers in hand. I walk outside and the cops bust me for breaking the city's open container law, while hundreds of people mill around me with drinks. A little selective enforcement. Did I do something wrong?

We have an overwhelming culture of corruption in this country, at the pinnacle of which are the directors and executives of major corporations. We let these guys get away with anything. SEC investigation is a joke. If Kumar was white, he would've walked. Instead, he gets thrown under the bus. Compared to the thievery and murder that the W mafia is carrying out in the name of the American people, overstating revenue is like jaywalking. Stealing from the ultrarich is what he's being punished for, but mostly it's just a token corporate prosecution.

The whole thing disgusts me. Ken Lay's family is drinking champagne and eating caviar, probably with Ken himself (anyone who believes he's really dead is an idiot), bought with the money Enron stole from me, my fellow Californians, the taxpayers of America, their employees, and countless others.

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