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iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do
The_AV8R writes "Jonathan Zdziarski showed that every time you press the Home button on your iPhone, a screen capture is taken in order to produce a visual effect. This image is then cached and later deleted. Zdziarski says that there have been cases of law enforcement looking up sex offenders' old data and checking recovered screenshots." This revelation occurred in the midst of a webcast on iPhone forensics, demonstrating how to bypass the iPhone's password security (not trivial, but doable). Video from the talk is not online yet but is promised soon over at O'Reilly.
Fine - alcohol is a drug. Happy? A drug that you can have one portion of without strong intoxication. People drink booze for a variety of reasons. Some, but not all of these reasons, involve intoxication. People take illegal drugs for a variety of reasons as well. But all of these reasons include, in some way, intoxication. The whole point of taking drugs is to get high. If you want to drop just a little bit of your namesake, but not enough to have any noticeable effect on you, fine, have at it. But you don't and you won't. Because the only reason you take drugs is to get high.
Point being, don't make such a tired and silly 10th-grade-speech-class comparison between your precious drugs and booze.
Please don't use "umm" or "err" or "erm".