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You: Standing in the kettle, grimly writing a lawyer's number in sharpie on your arm. Me: Ziptied on the ground, wishing I had a law degree.
You: Bent over a misbehaving Makerbot, swearing as you fiddle with the clogged head. Me: Guiltily cancelling my print job. Second chance?
You: Scurrying amongst the smoke & rubble, lithe figure framed by a flashbang's afterglow. Me: Idly surfing ustreams of hacked drone cams.
RT @tapbot_paul: @4sqSupport the following gets sent immediately after signing up for a new account, no warning. http://cl.ly/3x0x3C3...
Fun fact: All these apps that pull your data without consent are pretty clearly violating Canadian law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
While we were fantasizing that journalists would name the iOS apps that upload your address book, @tapbot_paul went to work. cc @tcarmody
RT @severalbees: "Unless the person offering the handshake is a verified threat or enemy, there is no reason why you shouldn’t accept the handshake."
RT @severalbees: "The handshake is a type of greeting for most American people, and is quickly being practiced in many other countries."
Remember, discussions about uploaded contacts is in context of US Gov't able to secretly subpoena w/out probable cause. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Maybe instead of the dead drop quip, I should have talked about collaborative consumption.
A different kind of dead drop. Communal guns. http://www.nytimes.com/2012... via @warrenellis @kazys
Who should I be talking to about atemporality?
"You tech bloggers are terrible." "No, YOU tech bloggers are terrible." Fellas, fellas, calm down. Everyone's right.
Admirably optimistic debit card unit allows for tip percentages with 3-digits.
TV appears to be showing live action Tron soccer. http://twitter.com/doingit...
RT @jordanclaire: Yo! What landscape scholars have written about the sky?
"We choose to go to the moon, probably. Details TBD."
RT @anthonymobile: Real or fake NYPD sign at Wash Sq:"Local Statutes Enforced By Drone"!!! http://twitter.com/anthony...
If you don't get why this address book thing matters, I remind you that National Security Letters exist. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
10 Surprising Apps That Have Uploaded Your Address Book [slideshow]
Hey @ThreatLevel "Here's a list of all the iOS apps that upload your address book" Imagine the pageviews! Make it happen.
You don't need to burn your sources to report this. Presumably, the tool that exposed @path uploading the address book could be used again.
And @parislemon says dozens of apps have shared my address book. http://parislemon.com/post... Which apps?
And @cdixon says 50 apps have shared my address book. http://cdixon.org/2012... Which apps?
For example, @dcurtis claims that 13/15 developers of popular iOS apps have my address book. http://dcurt.is/stealin... Which popular apps?
Journalists! Many, many posts talk about how there's lots of apps that have been uploading my address book. Where's the list of such apps?
What is this promoted tweet doing IN THE MIDDLE OF MY TIMELINE. Hey @twitter I will pay you money to never do that again.
Tearfully abandoning the draft of an article that used http://www.lifestylemirror.com/latest_... as an avenue for explaining atemporality. Perhaps another time.
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