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Retrievable iPhone Numbers Raise Privacy Issue
TechnologyResource writes "When a couple of voicemails didn't show up recently, I thought nothing of it until a friend asked me if I'd gotten his message — people just don't call me that often. But the iPhone is indeed a phone, as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app they've downloaded from the App Store. The application in question, mogoRoad, is a real-time traffic monitoring application. As invasive and despicable as that sounds, it raises another question: how did the company get hold of the contact information for those users? Mogo claims the details were provided by Apple, but Apple doesn't disclose that information to App Store vendors. French site Mac 4 Ever did some digging (scroll down for the English version) and determined it was possible — even easy — for an app to retrieve the phone number of a unit on which it was installed."
Tucker Max is a useless douchebag. That he has achieved such great success as a result of his drunken-asshole shtick is proof positive that American society contains a large number of semi-literate morons.
Worse than the stroking that Tucker Max's already-overinflated ego is receiving over all this movie-related publicity, even worse than the fact that he will further line his pockets as a direct result of his overgrown frat boy antics, is the fact that, thanks to this stupidass movie, every bar will be full of drunk guys acting like dickheads, trying to imitate their shitbag hero.
And you know at least a few airheaded, chlamydia-infected sorostitutes will spread their legs for the aforementioned dickheads, thus positively reinforcing their behavior.
Tucker Max is like a retarded frat boy Borat, but who isn't joking.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Just goaway. fucking fanbois.