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Comment Re:Canadians repress speech on a regular basis (Score 1) 594

by MattSaki on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @02:22PM (#33949868) Attached to: 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery

I do not think overzealous take-down letters is a strictly Canadian trait. Extrapolating these two (probably completely unrelated) incidents to an entire nation is idiocy.

Many More Android Apps Leaking User Data 299

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 30, 2010 @01:30PM from the because-they-can dept.

eldavojohn writes "After developing and using TaintDroid, several universities found that of 30 popular free Android apps, half were sharing GPS data and phone numbers with advertisers and remote servers. A few months ago, one app was sending phone numbers to a remote server in China but today the situation looks a lot more pervasive. In their paper (PDF), the researchers blasted Google saying 'Android's coarse grained access control provides insufficient protection against third-party applications seeking to collect sensitive data.' Google's response: 'Android has taken steps to inform users of this trust relationship and to limit the amount of trust a user must grant to any given application developer. We also provide developers with best practices about how to handle user data. We consistently advise users to only install apps they trust.'"

Comment Re:Ping? iTunes? (Score 1) 271

by MattSaki on Thursday September 02, 2010 @04:39PM (#33456872) Attached to: Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?

No. Because Adobe is a third party to every operating system equally.

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