Here is the original source, with more information and less sensationalism. They aren't sure if any user information was downloaded, but are treating this as a full breach. To their credit, they at least hashed the passwords, and chose to inform their userbase rather than sit on it until they figured out if any user data was actually stolen or not.
No, they only informed those who actively frequent their sire, since all they did was post a warning at the top of the forums page. They took no steps beyond that. They didn't bother to send out a mass email to their registered users. I didn't learn about it until yesterday, 3 days after the breach, and that's only because I read it here on slashdot. If I hadn't read about it here, it would probably have been another 5 or 6 days before I learned about it, since that's about how often I frequent their site.
Is there a source to what is claimed in the article? I followed the links and find nothing to substantiate. Even the NYTimes links just references their own articles.
If I recall correctly (as this news isn't exactly new... it's a few days old), the app wasn't pulled because of the outcry. It was pulled because Foursquare revoked the app's access to their APIs because it violated their terms of service which dictated you aren't allowed to use the APIs to aggregate information.
If you take Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and make them aliens instead, you kind of just ditched half the title right there; they're no longer mutants, or turtles. For that matter, they may not qualify as teenagers, and can an alien really be a ninja?
Oh I dunno... I think alien spoors that have been spliced into infant turtles, and spend the next 13-17 years growing and training as ninjas, would fit the TMNT name.
eBooks in general aren't a viable alternative for textbooks, or any book designed for reference material. There's too much rapid back and forth page flipping during typical textbook use. Tablets/pads/desktops/laptops/dedicated devices/etc.. simply don't have a viable interface to replace the ease of three fingered page flipping, multiple reference books open at the same time for cross referencing, etc. IMHO, eBooks are only a viable replacement for linear/chronological reading (as in reading a novel).
What the article fails to mention is that Microsoft and Samsung came to a cross-licensing agreement. Microsoft isn't extorting Samsung like some replies above like to believe. In the deal, Microsoft is also licensing some patents from Samsung as well. It's just not made transparent.
But did Anonymous ever focus on a collective agenda? They were always bored, and someone gave them a target, and if the target was "lulzy" enough, they would "raid". The irl actions followed exactly the same pattern.
At best, they have momentary flagships they follow. At worst, they are just picking at random things for the lulz.
The statement in bold points out that there's a structured agenda on the table. It's not like a random group of people coincidentally happened to be in the same place at the same time and their actions just miraculously worked in sync with each other.
The idea that any group of humans can achieve anything as a "leaderless collective" is a fantasy totally at odds with every prior historical instance of collective human activity. It doesn't happen.
Yep that's why angry mobs are just a scary campfire story.
Angry Mobs rarely accomplish anything but random destructive results and don't have a focused collective agenda, and as a result most likely will not achieve anything. Those that do, have somebody/somebodies directing traffic, thus negating the assumption of a "leaderless collective".
You can't make a call on a cell phone from an airplane.
Since when? You mean that little "policy" of not using cell phones on planes? Somehow I find it hard to believe anybody would follow that policy during a hijacking.
And the Pentagon is the most unusual case with almost no (believable) physical evidence.
Aside from photographs and thousands of witnesses?
The 86% is in reference to the portion of the royalties from the search box, not the whole $104M. Crunch the numbers and 86% is still off by 1%, but that's easily attributed to rounding off the actual numbers. ie... 103.5 x.965 x.855
I would venture to guess "Communication Breakdown". It's not like the lead train came to an instant stop when it lost power, as stopping a train takes a considerable effort. One would speculate that if a train lost power, it would only apply enough brake to ensure control on the track because it knows there's another train rapidly approaching from behind. And only then come to a complete stop when it's safe to do so.
It's not like they're banning it from your device. Got a new phone or wiped the device on an upgrade? Just download get it from a different source. Google isn't saying you can't have it on your device. They're simply not allowing it on their market. Whoop-de-do. There are other markets and sources (and in this case directly from the developer).
We're not worried. We pulled in $700mil in profit last quarter. The market somehow believes that we're going out of business as a result. Our market cap is now less than our annual revenue. What kind of sense does that make?
Yeah well, when your company's revenue was up 15% over the same quarter last year, and net profit is down 10% from the same quarter last year... that's not something you'd want to draw attention to. $700mil may look like a large number on the surface, but it's actually much smaller than it should have been.
Ooops, in the above recounting I forgot to mention that during the course of trying to remove myself from their mailing list, there was some unwarranted and not so nice return correspondence.
Something similar happened to me. There's a guy out there that has a similar username as me but would constantly either mistype it or forget to add his numerical digits to the end of his username, and as a result I found myself on several mailing lists. Informal mailing lists (not actual lists, just a circle of friends auto-replying to each other) that get your email address can act like a virus as they spread everywhere.
Sometimes a kindly worded message (or twelve) would get me removed from the circle of people replying to each other. But there was one occasion where I found myself receiving mails from a group of guys who coordinate all their golf games. I was polite the first couple of times I requested they remove my email address, but eventually my requests became less than friendly. Just about the time I started musing on the idea of getting on a plane and showing up to one of their golf expeditions and bringing just one club, they must have had the same thought occur to them, because it suddenly all stopped.
Do any apps or services actually use the ClientLogin API anymore? I thought everybody had switched to OAuth already. Wouldn't this be akin to using Telnet over an unsecured network instead of using SSH?
You can't steal abstract information like a particular combination of bits that can be rendered as a book. You can illegally copy them, but you can't steal them.
I think there are more than just a few people who frequent/. who would be much more eloquent and articulate than I am while they school you on the finer points of copyright and intellectual property.
Actually, if you purchase a stolen item, said item can legally be taken back from you. Purchase of a stolen item does not grant the purchaser any right to keep it.
In most cases, if the stolen item is worth $5, and it would cost $50+ in resources to go collect that item, it's just not worth the effort. On the other hand, if the item in question is worth $20,000 (like say... a car), then yes, expect to get a knock on the door from somebody looking to take it back.
Now if that $5 book only cost a couple pennies to get the book back, then it's now worth the effort to go and retrieve it. Welcome to the Digital Age.
Because a book, even an ebook, is more than just the contents as penned by the writer. There's copywright notice, credits, another publisher's stamp on the book, etc.. To the reader/end-user it's not a non-issue, but to the publishers it's a big deal.
You left out the point that when Amazon removed 1984 (and Animal Farm too) from Kindle devices, it was because it was discovered that the books were added to the Kindle store by a publisher that didn't have the rights to sell the books. And that the books were subsequently re-added to the Kindle store by the publisher that DID have the rights to them. The customers were refunded and credited for their troubles.
The analogy that it's akin to breaking into one's home is a bit of a stretch.
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Here is the original source, with more information and less sensationalism. They aren't sure if any user information was downloaded, but are treating this as a full breach. To their credit, they at least hashed the passwords, and chose to inform their userbase rather than sit on it until they figured out if any user data was actually stolen or not.
No, they only informed those who actively frequent their sire, since all they did was post a warning at the top of the forums page. They took no steps beyond that. They didn't bother to send out a mass email to their registered users. I didn't learn about it until yesterday, 3 days after the breach, and that's only because I read it here on slashdot. If I hadn't read about it here, it would probably have been another 5 or 6 days before I learned about it, since that's about how often I frequent their site.
Is there a source to what is claimed in the article? I followed the links and find nothing to substantiate. Even the NYTimes links just references their own articles.
If I recall correctly (as this news isn't exactly new... it's a few days old), the app wasn't pulled because of the outcry. It was pulled because Foursquare revoked the app's access to their APIs because it violated their terms of service which dictated you aren't allowed to use the APIs to aggregate information.
If you take Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and make them aliens instead, you kind of just ditched half the title right there; they're no longer mutants, or turtles. For that matter, they may not qualify as teenagers, and can an alien really be a ninja?
Oh I dunno... I think alien spoors that have been spliced into infant turtles, and spend the next 13-17 years growing and training as ninjas, would fit the TMNT name.
eBooks in general aren't a viable alternative for textbooks, or any book designed for reference material. There's too much rapid back and forth page flipping during typical textbook use. Tablets/pads/desktops/laptops/dedicated devices/etc.. simply don't have a viable interface to replace the ease of three fingered page flipping, multiple reference books open at the same time for cross referencing, etc. IMHO, eBooks are only a viable replacement for linear/chronological reading (as in reading a novel).
What the article fails to mention is that Microsoft and Samsung came to a cross-licensing agreement. Microsoft isn't extorting Samsung like some replies above like to believe. In the deal, Microsoft is also licensing some patents from Samsung as well. It's just not made transparent.
But did Anonymous ever focus on a collective agenda? They were always bored, and someone gave them a target, and if the target was "lulzy" enough, they would "raid". The irl actions followed exactly the same pattern. At best, they have momentary flagships they follow. At worst, they are just picking at random things for the lulz.
The statement in bold points out that there's a structured agenda on the table. It's not like a random group of people coincidentally happened to be in the same place at the same time and their actions just miraculously worked in sync with each other.
The idea that any group of humans can achieve anything as a "leaderless collective" is a fantasy totally at odds with every prior historical instance of collective human activity. It doesn't happen.
Yep that's why angry mobs are just a scary campfire story.
Angry Mobs rarely accomplish anything but random destructive results and don't have a focused collective agenda, and as a result most likely will not achieve anything. Those that do, have somebody/somebodies directing traffic, thus negating the assumption of a "leaderless collective".
You can't make a call on a cell phone from an airplane.
Since when? You mean that little "policy" of not using cell phones on planes? Somehow I find it hard to believe anybody would follow that policy during a hijacking.
And the Pentagon is the most unusual case with almost no (believable) physical evidence.
Aside from photographs and thousands of witnesses?
The 86% is in reference to the portion of the royalties from the search box, not the whole $104M. Crunch the numbers and 86% is still off by 1%, but that's easily attributed to rounding off the actual numbers. ie... 103.5 x .965 x .855
A tragedy in the sense that at the end, you realize Cap is a 90 year old virgin.
I would venture to guess "Communication Breakdown". It's not like the lead train came to an instant stop when it lost power, as stopping a train takes a considerable effort. One would speculate that if a train lost power, it would only apply enough brake to ensure control on the track because it knows there's another train rapidly approaching from behind. And only then come to a complete stop when it's safe to do so.
Not really "Free Schooling" as the tuition still has to be paid to receive the credits the internship provides.
Are you under the impression the Android Market is the only source available for installing apps to your Android device?
It's not like they're banning it from your device. Got a new phone or wiped the device on an upgrade? Just download get it from a different source. Google isn't saying you can't have it on your device. They're simply not allowing it on their market. Whoop-de-do. There are other markets and sources (and in this case directly from the developer).
This submission, and the article referenced to, read entirely differently.
Where exactly does it say they were fired?
Disclaimer: I'm a RIM employee.
We're not worried. We pulled in $700mil in profit last quarter. The market somehow believes that we're going out of business as a result. Our market cap is now less than our annual revenue. What kind of sense does that make?
Yeah well, when your company's revenue was up 15% over the same quarter last year, and net profit is down 10% from the same quarter last year... that's not something you'd want to draw attention to. $700mil may look like a large number on the surface, but it's actually much smaller than it should have been.
Umm no they haven't.
Ooops, in the above recounting I forgot to mention that during the course of trying to remove myself from their mailing list, there was some unwarranted and not so nice return correspondence.
Something similar happened to me. There's a guy out there that has a similar username as me but would constantly either mistype it or forget to add his numerical digits to the end of his username, and as a result I found myself on several mailing lists. Informal mailing lists (not actual lists, just a circle of friends auto-replying to each other) that get your email address can act like a virus as they spread everywhere.
Sometimes a kindly worded message (or twelve) would get me removed from the circle of people replying to each other. But there was one occasion where I found myself receiving mails from a group of guys who coordinate all their golf games. I was polite the first couple of times I requested they remove my email address, but eventually my requests became less than friendly. Just about the time I started musing on the idea of getting on a plane and showing up to one of their golf expeditions and bringing just one club, they must have had the same thought occur to them, because it suddenly all stopped.
Do any apps or services actually use the ClientLogin API anymore? I thought everybody had switched to OAuth already. Wouldn't this be akin to using Telnet over an unsecured network instead of using SSH?
You can't steal abstract information like a particular combination of bits that can be rendered as a book. You can illegally copy them, but you can't steal them.
I think there are more than just a few people who frequent /. who would be much more eloquent and articulate than I am while they school you on the finer points of copyright and intellectual property.
Actually, if you purchase a stolen item, said item can legally be taken back from you. Purchase of a stolen item does not grant the purchaser any right to keep it.
In most cases, if the stolen item is worth $5, and it would cost $50+ in resources to go collect that item, it's just not worth the effort. On the other hand, if the item in question is worth $20,000 (like say... a car), then yes, expect to get a knock on the door from somebody looking to take it back.
Now if that $5 book only cost a couple pennies to get the book back, then it's now worth the effort to go and retrieve it. Welcome to the Digital Age.
Because a book, even an ebook, is more than just the contents as penned by the writer. There's copywright notice, credits, another publisher's stamp on the book, etc.. To the reader/end-user it's not a non-issue, but to the publishers it's a big deal.
You left out the point that when Amazon removed 1984 (and Animal Farm too) from Kindle devices, it was because it was discovered that the books were added to the Kindle store by a publisher that didn't have the rights to sell the books. And that the books were subsequently re-added to the Kindle store by the publisher that DID have the rights to them. The customers were refunded and credited for their troubles.
The analogy that it's akin to breaking into one's home is a bit of a stretch.