"Amid rising scrutiny of their practices, Google Inc. defended the way it collects location data from Android phones, while Apple Inc. remained silent for a third day." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703387904576279451001593760.html?mod=googlenews_wsj these 'utilities' in the os by default are ON - they have to be clicked OFF but besides the phones, I'm just wondering if there's any other 'data mining' going on particularly 'portables' order entry/charting programs and I'm thinking - given how many apps have been written for the IPhone, how hard is it to write a trojan horse into an app to collect - bank account numbers/passwords and how can that be protected against, tho once discovered they're shut down fast
One kind of firewall works: whitelisting... do all banking from a whitelisted computer. I recommend a Lenovo laptop for that, Lenovos are just bitchin'... dedicate one to all financial transactions and keep it behind a whitelisting firewall or you could walk in to your bank branch and trust THEM... THEY wouldn't embezzle, right???
oh IPhone stores location even if disabled "Apple Inc.'s iPhone is collecting and storing location information even when location services are turned off, according to a test conducted by The Wall Street Journal." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704123204576283580249161342.html I don't know maxpi that whitelisting works against already installed software
Now the hackers are going to grab the information they grabbed.. :eek: You can see below: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/157354/20110603/brazen-hackers-assault-gmail-yahoo-and-hotmail.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/technology/04security.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...imed-by-hacker/2011/06/04/AGvaKxIH_story.html
Good lord. Every cell phone since the bloody things were invented has been tracked from power-on to power-off. They don't work, otherwise.