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Angry Birds Is the Most-Banned Mobile App By Businesses (fortune.com)
Barb Darrow, writing for Fortune: Corporate IT pros face the unenviable task of trying to protect valuable data from threats that change all the time. One vector of attack is clearly smartphones and tablets that employees use both for work and pleasure. To that end, mobile device management firm MobileIron just came out with its latest tally of the ten most blacklisted apps, based on a survey of 7,800 companies worldwide. Angry Birds tops the list of most-banned apps at companies worldwide, as well as in Australia, the U.S., and government sectors tracked by MobileIron in its twice-yearly Mobile Security and Risk Review. The survey covers the use of Android, iOS, and Windows devices from Oct. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2016.
The newer one just bombards you with adverts constantly. Those adverts themselves are often malicious looking. ("battery" boosters, fake "you've won a prize" shit, etc etc.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
"Angry Birds tops the list of most-banned apps at companies worldwide, as well as in Australia, the U.S..."
Are Australia and the US no longer worldwide? I didn't get the memo...
People waste more time playing "Candy crush" it seems.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
I thought that's what vpn were for...
The corporations really care about their own and their employees' interests!
The joke at my workplace for a while was, if the phone was in landscape mode during a meeting, the user was playing CoC.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
This article makes no sense at all. It clearly comes at this from the security angle, and says these apps that are blacklisted for that reason. That is why Dropbox is #2 on the list, for example, because it makes it too easy to move files in and out of the company. This is not about loss of productivity, but one of data security. The article gives no explanation whatsoever why Angry Birds is blacklisted for security. Does it record audio in the background? Take pictures? Report location? There is more to this than what the article discusses.
Angry Birds is the only entertainment / game app in the top 10 of any of those countries. So again, there is more to this than it being a popular game, otherwise the list would be just that - the 10 most popular games.
Better known as 318230.
Soo I can do whatever tf i want.
Did I miss something? What do they mean by Angry Birds as part of "threats that change all the time"? What's the big difference in playing the game on a personal device vs a company phone? I can think of a gazillion more meaningful ways they could be protecting against actual data-leak/money-costing problems, you know, unlike Angry fuckin' Birds
9 Programs that can be an IT security risk or a social network / communication app.
And a game.
Why is Angry Birds on the list? Is it only the original one or do they also block Angry Birds 2, 3, Space, Starwars, Rio, Rio2, etc.
I mean, how old is Angry Birds?
Why would anyone think that even having one of these treacherous so-called "smart" so-called "telephones" powered on is anything but a complete security disaster? Those are not telephones, they are locked-down computers, not under your control, running unknown quantities of unknown blobs of proprietary software doing who-knows-what and storing it all to blackmail you later.
If you work at a place with a decent IT shop, they'll happily put company email on your phone as long as you run their remote watch-and-wipe app. It's just not worth it to me - instead I publish my personal cell phone number everywhere along with a note "text me if it's serious" and check work emails when I get the next business day.
This is why there is a Company Phone and your own phone. And if you keep them a case that looks identical....
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The one I see most often has a blinking envelope and tries to look like a mail notification. The other trick is to make the "Close X" button not appear for a few seconds or make the actual button smaller than the X so you open the App store instead of closing the Ad.
Either you don't allow any mobile device on your corporate network, or you set strict mobile management policies that don't allow the installation of *ANY* application by the end user and push all mobile apps through the mobile management platform.
I chose the first option. There's no need for any of our phones or tablets to be on the corporate network.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Can any Aussies help us out here? Google gives back 0 results.
I used to work at a place where they started cracking down on what employees were allowed to reach from the office network in an attempt to reduce the bandwidth used for non-work tasks. They were a large national employer, so the Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, Netflix, etc. traffic was significant.
Eventually things got so bad that you couldn't even connect to the Internet using your work laptop at home without first connecting to the corporate VPN. And of course once you were connected to the VPN you still couldn't reach the banned sites/services even though you were at home.
One day some wise-guy in the systems engineering group decides he's tired of the restrictions and sets up a VPN on his home server on a port that could be reached from the office. This works for awhile until he lets enough people in on the secret that someone in network security notices all of those connections to the same remote system that are up all day long; gotta give 'em credit for paying attention. So netsec. traces the connections, figures out which business unit the people involved work for and calls up both their boss and the Director of the business unit to let them know that their people appear to be violating security policy.
The Director had better things to do than deal with this nonsense, so he verbally reprimands the people involved and then makes an announcement to everyone under him to consider this their one warning and that if he hears about anything like this again they'll be terminated on the spot.
Angry Birds ToS at Revio.com at the time was one of the most informative I've come across. They collected your data collected and sold it to flurry.com (who was owned by Google but YaHoo.com is in on it now as well). Flurry.com then added what they had on you and sold it to targeting advertisers.
Oh ya, I never installed Angry Birds, yet it's actions are the norm these days.
failing the human standards - Trax3001bbs
Angry Birds (aka assault birds) are banned in California as of Jan 1 2018. All current owners of assault birds must register their assault birds online. Details are incomplete but it is the citizens' burden to register, turn in, or destroy their assault birds by the deadline.
But I bet you stick your tongue inside google's anus and gorge deeply on their fecal matter, inhaling it with pleasure, banning anything that inst google ads, because you love to eat so much ass.
Now what does this have to do with banning this app at work again?