Tag: smartphones
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#MorningMonarchy: March 22, 2016
Face2Face, humanoids and hacks + this day in history w/Hale–Bopp and our song of the day by Aesop Rock on your Morning Monarchy for March 22, 2016.
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Japan Slams Brakes On Uber Taxi Service
from channelnewsasia.com: Japan has slammed the brakes on taxi service Uber less than a month after it launched a pilot programme in the country, with a government official saying Wednesday (Mar 4) it likely violates transport laws. The development marked another blow for the web-based taxi app, which has become an object of scorn from…
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Hidden spy software found in Chinese-made smartphones
from intelnews.org: A popular brand of Chinese-made smartphones, which are sold internationally by several major retailers, has been found to contain pre-installed monitoring software, according to a German security firm. The revelation was made on Tuesday by G Data Software, which is based in Bochum, Germany, and has a subsidiary in the United States. The…
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Text to 911 Service Coming to Community Near You?
from wdtv.com: On Thursday, the nation’s four major cell phone providers started offering text to 911 services as an option for people who need emergency help, but for one reason or another can’t make a call. AT & T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are all on board now, but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone’s 911…
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Cell Phone Privacy: Justices Confront a New World Order
from pulse.ncpolicywatch.org: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court — the youngest of whom is 54 — confronted their own technological limits yesterday and struggled with creating new parameters for the right to privacy in a world where a person’s whole life can be documented on a cell phone… The justices’ questions themselves revealed varying…
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Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data
from ndtv.com: When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.
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Food delivery app Zesty cuts the grease and guilt from takeout
from venturebeat.com: A world where we could eat takeout every single night, without the consequences of cost or calories, would be a wonderful world. Alas it is not the world we live in, but Zesty is working to make takeout food less terrible for you. The company launched out of beta today, which lets people…
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Motorola Wants Everyone To Build Smartphones Like Legos
from readwrite.com: Google has teased us before. Rumors swirled for months that Motorola would introduce a customizable smartphone that would let consumers decide what kind of hardware — a bigger battery, choice of processor, a better camera—they wanted. The notion of a consumer-grade open hardware platform quickened the heartbeats of geeks across the globe. What…
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India’s PM Has No Mobile Phone, Email For NSA To Hack
xfrom ndtv.com: The Prime Minister does not own a mobile phone or use personal email, giving India “no cause for concern” about new US hacking revelations, his office said on Friday… Asked if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was concerned, his spokesman replied: “The prime minister doesn’t use a mobile phone and he doesn’t have an…
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12/1 defcon: sopa, carrier iq & you
comedy of errors led to false ‘water-pump hack’ report* flashback: feds deny water utility hack* hackers target united nations development program website* crack this code & become a british spy* sopa on the ropes? bipartisan alternative to ‘net censorship emerges* critics line up to bash maker of secret phone-monitoring software* does your smartphone run carrier…
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8/11 Defcon: Focused Chaos, Miracle Weapons & The Facebook Op
Twitter users face arrest for inciting London looters // Mossad’s miracle weapon: Stuxnet virus opens new era of cyber war // Survey finds smartphone apps store too much personal data
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8/4 Defcon: Black Hat, Shady Rat, Mantech & More
Former CIA official Cofer Black ‘predicts’ cyber 9/11 // Stuxnet changes terrorism equation, says former CIA official at black hat con // Vanity Fair exclusive on ‘Operation Shady Rat’: Unprecedented cyber-espionage campaign & intellectual-property bonanza // Hackers hit FBI merc Mantech; Online security contractor for FBI, NATO, DOD, DOJ & state dept // Randi Zuckerberg…
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3/31 defcon: morpheus, auroras, smartbombs & omg’s!
secret space plane can’t hide from amateur sleuths* secret x-37b space plane caught on video by skywatchers* nasa tracking ‘a large object approaching the sun’* video: will ‘morpheus’ be the first vehicle on the moon since apollo?* video: stunningly beautiful time-lapse footage of aurora* nsa said to focus its decrypting skills on nasdaq cyber attack*…