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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."
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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Perhaps these are anti-JZ hackers cleverly disguising their activities by posing as activists.
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Ernest Hemingway
And you DO know it's a troll, right?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
This sounds like something a music promotion company would do.
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?
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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.
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.
We saw those (greatest presidents ever) stories six years ago. Some of the authors have woken up sense then, but there are always a few idiots that can't accept their savior is just a Chicago politician. Also many who never believed it, but wrote it anyhow.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
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.
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
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.