"A maker of some of the most popular games for the iPhone has been surreptitiously collecting users' cell numbers without their permission, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. The complaint claims best-selling games made by Storm8 contained secret code that bypassed safeguards built into the iPhone to prevent the unauthorized snooping of user information. The Redwood City, California, company, which claims its games have been downloaded more than 20 million times, has no need to collect the numbers."
- alphaxion
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"It has often been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For the internet, that first step was more of a stumble. At 2100, on 29 October 1969, engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) prepared to send data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet."
- alphaxion
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is it just me or does al gore have a passing resemblence to tony blair?
You know what, I'd love to have a media server application that would treat files on a mapped drive as if it were local and let me add them into a database and tag them with meta data such as genre, date and the cast. This software would then be able to stream, cross platform, to any client app which supported the protocol. Anyone know of one?
"US President Barack Obama has vowed not to forget American Indian tribes, as representatives gathered for a White House conference on native issues."
- alphaxion
from Bookmarklet
How much has this garnered attention in the US?
- alphaxion
The Native American Problem is still an issue in the US, but everyone speaks of it as if it's dead. True, you can't get all that land back from the Blackhills despite the US Supreme Court ruling, but it's certainly not moot. Kind of a deadlock imo.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
@kierongillen cool :) The subject of the game just made me laugh... slightly want to see a sonic game set in hull now >.<
"mobile enthusiast and professional internet strategist got a glimpse of OAuth's dark side recently when he received an urgent advisory from Twitter."
- alphaxion
from Bookmarklet
@paulvale recommend you change your password for twitter.
Is that a spoof? Please tell me that's a spoof!!
- Andrew Terry
anyone else been having problems posting to facebook since the "live feed" change... I often have my posts stay in the input box after hitting share instead of actually posting.
"The UK government today came a step closer to international embarrassment over its failure to act against BT and Phorm for their secret trials of mass internet snooping technology. The European Commission said it had moved to the second stage of infringement proceedings after the trials, revealed by The Register, exposed failings in the UK's implementation of privacy laws."
- alphaxion
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why are we seeing absolutely fuck all about this from the likes of Robert, Loic, Louis, Chris et al? surely something that abuses net users and could be used to deny access to resources on the net would be big enough to warrent discussion from our tech/web ambassadors? Why are they ignoring such a massive threat?
- alphaxion
To most bubble insiders, the web is primarily a money machine, not a force for equality and democracy.
- LogEx
it's not like it's unique to the UK.. it actually exists in the US on the marketplace right now - Comcast have it on their networks, for example! Frontporch and NebuAd were the main guys, tho at least senators of the US government are bothering to ask questions about it. This has only ever appeared on the pages of TechCrunch... and, predicably they failed to see the threat and simply...
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- alphaxion