alphaxion

"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 from Bookmarklet

"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 from Bookmarklet

"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)

"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

crazy, all flavours of crazy now in stock - alphaxion from Bookmarklet

Is that a spoof? Please tell me that's a spoof!! - Andrew Terry

Haven't seen any issues, but I don't go on FB so much, so not sure. - Shevonne

I wonder if it's because I've so far refused to upgrade firefox beyond 2.0.0.20? - alphaxion

one upgrade and the problem no longer appears. - alphaxion

"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 from Bookmarklet

https & proxies are our friends ;) I've started a disinformation campaign too... putting a lot of chaff on my stream :) - LogEx