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Palm Pre Reports Your Location and Usage To Palm
AceJohnny writes "Joey Hess found that his Palm Pre was ratting on him. It turns out the Pre periodically uploads detailed information about the user to Palm, including the names of installed apps, application usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates. This, of course, is without user consent or control. The only way he found to disable the uploads was to modify system files."
Ok, add them to the list.
Actually it's getting hard to keep track. Should we start a wiki?
Possibly even better answer: 90% of the Palm users don't care.
Where's the hyperbolic and inflammatory blurb?
I only get paid to attack particular businesses and politicians.
I'm sure the hell not going to bother to attack someone else for free. Someone has to pay for it.
Look up "prole drift." More people have opportunities to better themselves than ever before; now *everyone* has a chance to run a shady business and abuse their positions of power. Things like grass lawns and vacations also used to be the exclusive playthings of the wealthy.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
In the spirit of blaming Apple for Palm's misbehavior with their iTunes stunt please respond here with how this is also Apples fault.
I'll give it a shot: There's an app for that!"
I digress.
- xserv
"I love lamp."
> Things like grass lawns and vacations also used to be the exclusive playthings of the elderly.
Fixed that for you. Now get off my lawn.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Really? What does this iDigress app do?!
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
> some do. its just hit the lawyer boards.
> http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1062087&mc=1&forum_id=2
Err umm, Some of my um CLIENTS need to know if their Palm Pre will record visits to their prostitutes.
Ahem... please answer this question before 4pm this afternoon, if possible.
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VP of Engineering: "Dude, they're going to find out, and they'll be pissed."
VP of Marketing: "This is going to be great. Think of all the things we could do with this information. Think of all the people we could sell that information to. The feature stays."
EVP of Marketing: "I eat boogers."
CMO: "Excellent work, EVP of Marketing. VP of Engineering, you're too cautious. You'll never make it in today's world."
CIO: "He's right. You're fired."
VP of Engineering: "It's all good, I already have two other jobs lined up. Later, losers."
EVP of Marketing: "Did I mention I eat my own boogers?"
Sent from your iPad.
Isn't it great how the courts can ask Motorola where you are but you can't?
You just need to sue yourself and then ask Motorola for the location of your phone so that you can serve legal documents to yourself.
I'm just worried that that freaky Pre chick knows where I live now.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
You mean, when the rich pee on the poor?
How's the weather way, way, way, way down under the sand?
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Only to find out, after days and days of reading source code, that google was evil after all
Yet another example of an amoral corporation not giving a shit about their customers.
I disagree. They care about you so much that they want to know where you are all the time. Next step is to turn on the voice recording feature in the middle of the night to make sure you're still breathing.
Your palm is not a chick, never was.
I wonder what kind of backlash there will be about this and how much more negative impact it will have on the Palm brand.
Why, none of course...None at all, since Palm knows exactly where you were between noon and 1:00pm today, who you called, where she met you and also knows the phone number of your wife.
MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
Some of my um CLIENTS need to know if their Palm Pre will record visits to their prostitutes.
That's it! That was Palm's motivation all along! To collect one gargantuan database of the most popular prostitutes!
Whoa to datamine this beauty.... you could find out the most popular prostitutes - and avoid them! Go to unpopular ones and haggle for the price! Find out the REAL unpopular ones for the most kinky stuff!
Not that I'd be interested, mind you. No sir, not me.
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90% of Palm users don't actually exist.
... and then they built the supercollider.