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Anti-Government Hackers Hit Jay-Z's Android App
judgecorp writes "Jay-Z's Android app has been hit by hackers who created a clone of the software. The app was supposed to deliver a copy of the rapper's single and provide footage and other goodies. The rogue app is a ringer for the real one, but has a time-based trigger to deliver anti-Government propaganda on 4 July. The app, and its service name NSAListener, appears to suggest be a protest against U.S. surveillance."
And it's news how?
No, you choose to use Apple so that you can post "And this is why I choose to use Apple" all around the interwebs.
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you DO know Apple is in on prism as well dont you? of course you do, but your just a shill for apple.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Apple doesn't care about your security, it cares about your money. There are pirated apps in the Apple store by the way, and developers have recently been complaining about it. As Apple gets their cut regardless of whether or not the app has been pirated it's not at the top of their priority list.
Perhaps these are anti-JZ hackers cleverly disguising their activities by posing as activists.
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So I did just so I could steal his
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And you DO know it's a troll, right?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Whoosh!
What did they hack? Sounds to me like a bunch of politically active developers with a flair for promotion, and perhaps a disregard for copyright. (Or is copying someone elses look and feel fair use in this context?)
You mean like what Snowden did?
This sounds like something a music promotion company would do.
You fucken everything I do up! God is perfectly just. I'll wait for it.
God says...
hallow Nevada complete Homer's terrible Guardian shone lowest
This is total bullshit.
Signed, a non-Obama loving Jay-Z fan.
Jay-Z's app wasn't hacked at all. The story states that McAfee (the antivirus company, not the insane founder of that company) "found" an app that purports to be Jay-Z's app but does these things. It doesn't say where they found the app, nor if anyone has even been affected by this at all - it mainly seems to be a weird "Hey can we turn this whole Snowden story into a way to get our company so e attention" thing.
We rail about the Slashdot editors all the time; but come on. Shouldn't you guys at least make sure the title isn't out and out WRONG?
#DeleteChrome
So this app just downloads his single, some video and other crap ?
Back in my day there used to be these things called 'websites' that artists used to do all that.
Can't mobile/tablet users do anything without needing a specific app for it ? Or is it just because marketing droids still see 'app' as a buzzword?
News flash: that's all any of them care about.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Sony, Netflix, Samsung, Oracle, Nokia, Motorolla ... every single damned one of them (and more) only cares about your money.
They will often sacrifice your security in order to make it easier for them to intrude on your privacy. Or they're so grossly incompetent to implement any actual security as to make it worthless. The only security they'll put effort into is their own DRM.
If you completely trust any of them, you've misplaced your faith. You can trust them to varying degrees as you see fit, but don't think for a minute this is unique to Apple.
None of these companies deserve blanket trust, some deserve some guarded trust where you disable/enable as you need them, and some of them you should probably neither trust nor reward with your money.
But every single damned one of them has one goal, and one goal only -- to maximize profits, and in the process, monetize anything about you they have access to.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Yes, because they are the ones most likely to need the message. No sense in sending it to the already converted.
And how was that different from Bush before him, exactly? There were about as many naysayers, about as many ethical violations.
The only real difference is that he's black, and when you say "most people who would listen to jay-z are obama voters," what you're trying to say in a thinly veiled fashion is "most black people are obama voters." Thinly veiled racism -- I thought that sort of thing only got moderated up on reddit, but apparently it's made it's sleazy way to Slashdot as well.
I know being an ignorant cunt is probably very comfortable an easy a lifestyle for you, but I have some bad news...people of all colours are starting to question the current administration. The problem in this country is people like you, probably a homeschooler who was brought up to hate "them niggers and foreigners taking your jobs." That's the sort of person you are, you're just too passive-aggressive to admit it here. The real problem with this country is that it's run by people like you -- imagine that, even a black guy can be an asshole if you give him power. So have many powerful white men before him, you still don't have a point...other than that you're a xenophobe who is being given a startling amount of attention.
Really, Slashdot? This is "insightful?"
Troll success. Several angry replies, even managed to get marked insightful.....
I'm not addressing other companies here, I'm addressing Apple, and someone (who is probably trolling, but has been modde insightful by the faithful) thinks they care about his security. Security is not the primary reason they've locked down their platform. It bothers me that people think it is as now Microsoft and other are foaming at the mouth now they they have a good shot at locking their platforms and demanding a cut of all software installed as well.
I dont support any BIG comapny if I can. Fuck Apple, Google and etc....
>. I'd say the rest of /. get on this "band-wagon" and put trust into a company that *actually* cares about you and your security...
Take you shiny and shove it up your ass, I don't use any fancy phones so Im better than you, who thinks he's better than ./ I also don't store who whole life on a phone and in the cloud.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Create explitable JAY Z app /.
Post that its been exploited to get on
???
Profit for Jay Z
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
"Their stuff "Just Works""
No it doesn't. Their Maps app sucks (constantly telling me to turn on streets that have dead ends that stretch a mile before starting back as a road in some neighborhood, thinking the street runs the entire way)
The Camfrog App won't allow me to join 18+ rooms (saying iOS won't allow it) That's pretty broken if you ask me.
Apple - perfect products if you're a child. Useless for real-world applications.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
+1 Flamebait
Nope. It's still Democrats vs. Republicans. There's no race war in the policy.
Yeah, those obamo voters are fanatics! Almost as unlikely to be swayed by logic as those anti-obama people!
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
It's extremely funny that you would think that empty-suit Romney would be ANY different in this matter. There is no party differences on this one.
Like a group of enwards are going to listen to that
It could be a protest against the NSA, IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Obamacare, or general US ineptitude around the world. It is hard to know which. We do know that Jay-Z is a complicit Obama crony.
an ill wind that blows no good
I don't mean to come off as racist here[...]
Too late.
I think it would be absolutely awesome if someone were to do something like this and have it send out emails making empty threats to political figures that would keep the secret service so ridiculously busy that they can't do their job.
But then again, that might be the cause they need to "increase the security budget and buy another billion bullets." Yeah, probably not a great idea but still. Having feds arrive at the doors of some of these people might be fun to watch.
Well, let's face it -- this is Slashdot. 30% will hate everything a given company does with no good reason, 30% will love everything a given company does with no good reason, 20% or so use lots of different things but aren't 'faithful' and buy on merit, 26.3% of us will just say "get off my lawn" and bitch about everything, about 42% will buy on the basis of "oooh, shiny", and 100% will piss and moan about the decision making process of other people being horribly flawed, irrational, and untenable.
You'll also find no correlation between how Slashdot does this, and how the rest of the world does since we tend to be polarized to the point of being collective screeching monkeys.
Yes, Apple led the way in terms of providing a closed shop they control. And, yes, as you point out, everyone is trying to do exactly the same thing right now.
I'm jut saying that instead of this pointless pissing contest everytime someone mentions Apple or Microsoft and we divide off into camps of idiots -- go no the assumption they're all greedy bastards who don't give a shit about your security and privacy.
Weigh the technology on how useful it is to you and your needs, balanced with how much you care about various bullshit any of them have done in the past and what you can do to mitigate it.
But don't think any tech company nowadays has your best interests at heart. Me, I'm just as apt to run both my Google Nexus and my iPad in airplane mode most of the time to minimize the stuff it is doing when I'm not looking.
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call it, "project: DOS the BOSS"
lol
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Yep. It's even stronger than the Reagan worship. I think Hitchcock (maybe it was Steven King) wrote a film on the phenomenon. Hollywood fiction isn't so fictional.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Given that those are the type of people who need the most convincing ... yes.
I like to actively try to stop people from giving money to companies that are reducing my chances of having open platforms available to me in the future. I think it's extremely important. Just letting things go in the direction they are and saying "oh well" will probably end badly for me, and eventually most others as well. Sometime a little idealism is required. Perhaps not to the point of RMS, but enough to point out that if we keep allowing locked down platforms to succeed that eventually only locked down platforms will be readily available. As with freedom and many other things, most don't miss it until they realize it's gone.
I'm amused at the anti-Obama hate by the usual suspects here. This puerile, frankly stupid stunt is an extension of Obama Derangement Syndrome we see in the less-intelligent on the Left, the Right and from the looney-tarian lunar fringe.
I'm no leftie, nor a John Bircher, nor a libertarian. Which is probably why I have a lot of respect for the man.
You rarely get people who can show that sort of nous, effectiveness, ruthlessness and pragmatism in one individual, and I bet very few people would survive, let alone thrive with the sort of irrational, hateful opposition that man sees. Remember, we're in the midst of a once-in-a-century global economic crisis, and the West is fighting wars on two separate fronts, and Cold Wars on others.
We're not getting "HOPE", as it were. What the West is getting, is the tough, pragmatic leader it needs.
I'd wager that if he wasn't mixed-race or a Democrat, we'd be reading stories on CNN about how Obama would be considered of the greatest presidents ever.
Way to prove his point.
First, you're perpetuating the idea that there are only two choices and that his comment was an indication that he was supporting Obama. Nothing in his comment said that.
Second, that the other choice would have behaved differently.
Third, that the person you are replying to is even a US citizen.
I am not a US Citizen and would have replied to your post in the same way. People outside the use can have opinions too.
Unlike yourself, I can see that supporters on both sides (if you are only looking at two sides) are equally dogmatic, which is what the post you are replying to was saying.
Oh, I hear you my friend.
Sadly, the major players have no interest in open platforms. So your choices become "live in a cave and stop using technology", "find the middle ground you can live with", or "just use it and stop caring".
Obviously the 1st and 3rd choices suck, and the 2nd one is difficult, and quite possibly a losing battle.
Thee and me tilting at windmills won't change the way most people go about doing this. I'm not saying we should stop trying, but sometimes a little pragmatism can come in handy.
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Cue Government propaganda on how only wide spread NSA surveillance can protect Jay-Z fans from infecting their Android phones.
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
Wow, man. You've got a huge chip on your shoulder.
If anything, the person you are replying to was promoting looking somewhere other than Republican or Democrat. Certainly nothing in the comment suggested voting Democrat.
Get your head out of your ass and start thinking instead of sending these knee-jerk responses to anyone who isn't 100% anti-obama.
jajaja, no soy un gringo we!
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
jay z is a cross over artist. I actually know more white people who like him than black people so thats just how YOU took it.(sure anacdotal of course) but it has nothing to do with race and only people who focus on race would have read it as such. as to the rest of your assumptions, just laughable and not worth responding to.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Did you know that Obama's not going to be running again?
I'm pretty sure it's possible to "vote democrat (sic)" without voting Obama.
You are welcome on my lawn.
actually yes. look at how many people voted for obama a second time, after the disasterous first term. And Its not about race its about party. Look at MSNBC , chris matthews still has a boner for obama as does maddow and the rest (all white, some gay and some female). I stand by my statement. IT was a knock at crappy music (jay z) and the people who tend to listen to crappy music tend to vote for crappy people.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
i noticed it as soon as i hit submit :( sometimes ya get trolled.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
and to top it off ill make it easy. go to my posts pre 2008, you will see just as much hate on bush. but NO if I dont like obama, in your world I MUST love bush and be a racist. but guess what, bush isnt in power, we cant do anything about him anymore. get over it and look at the problems that the current president is causing.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
I am. I am prejudiced against republicans and democrats. whats the problem?
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
well.. you do realize that the way the soviet union fell was exactly that their budgets for needless crap ballooned so much that they practically bankrupted.
so yeah, it might work. of course there's the inconvience of bankruptcy.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
+1 Truthhurts
In my experience those who perpetuate the "two choice" myth on Slashdot are largely Democrats. Just look at past political discussion around here, and you will find that the opinions of Green/Libertarian supporters were most often shot down by people who argued that voting for a 3rd party would split the vote and give McCain/Romney the edge.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Seems like it's about every week now we're hearing about Android vulnerabilities. Google shouldn't make open systems if they're incapable of securing them. That or they're trying to making something more busted than Windows.
There is logic behind that way of thinking. fire the most part third parties are very heavy on the liberal side of the equation. this means that a third party vote is a divided liberal vote. Tea party is a notable exception as are right leaning libertarians, but most third parties, such as green, workers, reform, progressive, socialist, classical libertarian, etc, fall on the liberal side. So in the first past the post system in the US, a third party vote is a one vote lead for the republican party two thirds of the time. And I say that as someone that votes third party almost exclusively.
(not the same AC)
In my experience, it's about equal. Even the 3rd party guys perpetuate a "two choice" myth of their own, by saying that both the Dems and Reps are the same, grouping them as one choice ("Republocrats", "Democans", etc), and that *they* are the better choice
That's why I try to promote stance few dare to: no holds bar in your face tyranny! Not just any tyranny, but the likes of Cobra Commander or Palpatine or Megatron or Lex Luthor or Dr Evil /tongueincheek
To the tune of "The ABC Song" (R)(TM)
ABCD-EBT, Jay-Z knows what's best for me.
So I will buy his new CD,
And listen to it so I can be a re-re,
I'll be living at ma-mama-how 'til I am 30
ABCD-EBT, Jay-Z knows what's best for me.
And since there once was slavery,
I can blame it all on ol' whitey,
And all the other re-re will nod and agree.
ABCD-EBT, Jay-Z knows what's best for me.
My son is on drugs and my dotta is a ho
'Cause they grew up watching Maury
And the Jerry Springer show.
But since I am too stupid to admit what is wrong,
I'll just whine like a little bitch,
About this frighteningly racist song.
ABCD-EBT, Jay-Z knows what's best for me.
Did you know that Obama's not going to be running again?
I'm pretty sure it's possible to "vote democrat (sic)" without voting Obama.
Your point is? You are still voting for the party apparatus that put him in power. Did you know that Obama was not expected to win the Primaries back in 2008? It surprised many of the people in the democratic party upper echelons and they had to scramble to get their party machine behind him.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Successful troll is successful!
I guess I was wrong. Good to see even idiots have a notion of solidarity.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
I'm not sure what you're asking. If you want to know who my candidate is for 2016, it's either Russ Feingold or Howard Dean.
Anybody who voted for the Patriot Act is dead to me. Anybody with an "R" after their name is dead to me. Anybody who has said that they would not have voted for the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Right Act (coughRandPaulcough) is most definitely dead to me.
That leaves a lot of governors and Russ Feingold.
You are welcome on my lawn.
did you know people still bitch B B BUT BUSH! eventhough hes been gone for years? obama cant run again but he can keep fucking up this country for at least 3 years
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
sad, rand paul seems to be the only smart member of congress right now
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
i'd wager that most rap artists have always had way more white fans than blacks fans. if it wasn't for all those white kids buying it, it'd never have gotten so mainstream.
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Maybe because the largesse of the Republicans have moved way, way right of Reagan? You know the guy that raised taxes a bumnch, granted amnesty to a bunch of illegals, and so on. No way the dude would get on any Republican ticket these days.
Not true. This logic only applies to voters in battleground states. For the presidential election, most people live in states which are already decisively Red or Blue with a comfortable margin. Even a large showing from 3rd party voters in those states would not change the outcome due to the hundreds of thousands of votes that need to switch sides for a change to occur. Because of this, voting in line with your state's majority is as useless as voting against it. The only way a vote in a non-battleground state actually matters when it comes to presidential election is to vote 3rd party, and to help them achieve the 5% national threshold in order to gain federal funding.
Both you and parent AC ignore the winner-takes-all setup of the electoral college.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
No, it's nothing like that. I'm only talking about the power of the old 'cult of personality'. Obama was the perfect choice, covers all bases. He is untouchable.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
At least they have a sense of humour! Lighten up.
This is total bullshit.
Signed, a non-Obama loving Jay-Z fan.
If I was a Jay-Z fan I'd post anonymously, too.
If you're critical of Republicans, you are an intelligent person
If you're critical of Democrats, you are a Republican
At least that's what Slashdot moderation usually implies
Where were you 8 years ago to reply to every last off-topic anti-bush rant?
For the racists who can't understand what a troll modifier is. I'm basically saying I'm not a USian. I am a north american though, who is slightly ashamed at how my countries have let themselves be raped by the USA.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
I seems that we have a racist here.
Fuck off, you little twat.
I have blood relatives from several ethnic groups. You assume that if I don't support Obama, that I must be racist. Let be guess, you have some token friends from another ethnicity? Family trumps fake friends and white guilt.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
I seems that we have a racist here.
Fuck off, you little twat.
Racists either support or oppose someone based on their race. If you voted for Obama because he had a black father then you are a racist. I judge people, not by the colour of their skin but by the quality of their character just like Martin Luther King wanted. A person's character can be judged based on their actions and how their actions line up with their words. Obama's actions have been inconsistent with what he promised.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
I helped vote Russ Feingold in. He only won the primary, because two nasty backstabbing Democrats killed each other and #3 underdog won. He's been an amazingly good. Anyone who compares him to Rand Paul is an idiot.