Security researcher GironSec has pulled Uber’s Android app apart and discovered that it’s sending a huge amount of personal data back to base – including your call logs, what apps you’ve got installed, whether your phone is vulnerable to certain malware, whether your phone is rooted, and your SMS and MMS logs, which it explicitly doesn’t have permission to do.
Amazon is offering free access to the Washington Post’s new app to owners of its Fire tablet, the first tie-up between the companies since the e-retailer’s founder Jeff Bezos bought the paper last year.
The WaPo app, which will be free for six months, will offer two editions, at 5am and 5pm US eastern time, with at least 100 articles, plus breaking news and other updates. The editions will be compiled by a team of 16 journalists working three shifts a day.
It will be imminently pushed to all Fire tablets as a software upgrade, though owners who do not want the app can delete it. After the trial period it will cost a total of $1 (64p) for the following six months and a fee likely to be between $3 and $5 a month after that.
As a Kindle Fire owner, I have to admit that I’m loving this app/subscription. It’s not just the content, but the layout/UI of the app. If it’s a year for $1, I’m definitely in; after that, we’ll see if I’ll end up signing up for $36 or $60 a year…
Upon Reading Too Much Social Media
The realization that I have little-to-no interest in responding to someone’s fandom for something I have little interest in by saying “[X] is terrible, you should like [Y] instead!” has made me consider whether or not I truly “get” Internet 3.7 or whatever we’re on right now.
(This comment brought to you by “Why have I looked into the MoffatHate tag, am I an idiot?”)
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a society that gives dignity and respect to people like Michael Brown and John Crawford and Rekia Boyd. Instead, we’ve organized our country to deny it wherever possible, through negative stereotypes of criminality, through segregation and neglect, and through the spectacle we see in Ferguson and the greater St. Louis area, where police are empowered to terrorize without consequence, and residents are condemned and attacked when they try to resist.
“I don’t want to speak for you, that you’re making excuses for the bad doers,” the CNN host said. “So what do you want to leave with people? What is your message going forward?”
“I am not making excuses going forward. I’m giving an analysis that compounded injustice leads to anarchy and justice leads to peace,” Jackson answered. “I am fundamentally an advocate of non-violence but I understand how pain plays out when it’s compounded, and it is a long train of abuses.”