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Quote from: TamerVirus on December 03, 2014, 10:04:26 pm

Brits try to identify US states

Americans try to identify countries in Europe

The really sad thing is that for all my posturing, I wouldn't be any better than either of them.

Oh man, all of the people got Texas right, even the guy who put in "Lots of racism" in there.

Well if someone doesn't actually press that as a homicide case then something is fundamentally wrong with the Justice system in New York.  The autopsy reported it a homicide, choke-holds are actually against the departments' list of approved take-down methods, and we actually have video of it happening.  The cop who initiated the choke-hold at the very least could be tried for homicide, especially after they had him down on the ground.

Not sure how 12 people saw that as unable to be tried.

Quote from: Karkov on December 03, 2014, 01:22:22 pm

On the American app market alone there's like 4 "flashlight" apps that send off data about you back to their creators.

See stuff like this here is why I'm scared of my phone.

Just treat it like you would a computer (because it is).  Get anti-virus, encryption, don't download crap that you don't need, and just generally be safe with it.  Use common sense whilst browsing the internet; if something seems fishy, it probably is.

Quote from: Skyrunner on December 03, 2014, 12:39:01 am

Mother clicked an unverified link that was sent via SMS to her, installed the app, then ran it.

The app proceeded to hijack her kakao talk messenger app (which is used by nearly all people in Korea), change the password and email, then sent messages to her friends and relatives talking about how she urgently needed $1000 or so, would you please send it to <bank account provided>. She didn't know until a friend asked her why she needed $1000 by phone; if the friend had asked by Kakaotalk, she might have been swindled by the conman sitting on the other side.

@.@ I never knew you could hijack another app...

So continues the trend of technologically impaired old people mucking up their devices with something that could have easily been avoided.

Nah, there's a bunch of apps out there right now that, once you download them, will just wreak havoc with your phone.  People hide tons of code in those things because no one ever bothers to open them up and find out what makes them tick.  This one that Skyrunner's mom downloaded was just slightly more malicious than others.

On the American app market alone there's like 4 "flashlight" apps that send off data about you back to their creators.  It only takes a couple of kilobytes (90 KB from what I heard) to make a flashlight app, and a couple of those are around 2-3 MBs.  Data about consumers is currently the best product that app producers can generate, some people like to skip the middleman though and try to extort their customer database.  It usually lands them behind bars somewhere.

FAKEEDIT:  WHY AM I ALWAYS THE FIRST POST ON A PAGE!?  AGH.

Dammit Google search, why can't you tell exactly what I want in the first hour?  You're supposed to be the good search engine!  Even though you data mine everything we do.

Quote from: Baffler on November 24, 2014, 10:50:04 pm

I'd certainly want to be in a different state...

Like Alaska?

Like, Northern Alaska.

Shots fired in front of the fire department and apparently a journalist hit in the head with a brick.

Well this is turning out to be a fun night.