dan tynan on Aug 02 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, Privacy, Spy v spy, iPhone
And you thought those iPhone 4 signal problems were bad. At last week’s Blackhat conference, a San Francisco firm called Lookout Mobile Security revealed that third-party smart phone apps are stealing user information and (literally) phoning home with it. And by ‘home,’ I mean China.
But unlike those bogus Droid X signal problems, this [...]
dan tynan on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Video, Web 2.0, Wired
Online content factory Demand Media has a new way to generate blogs and videos, using software and a network of human drones. Welcome to your Web nightmare.
dan tynan on Dec 03 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, politics
The Julie Amero case has stirred up a lot of emotions, including some from readers who feel I was less than fair in my description of the expert witness hired by Amero’s attorney, Herb Horner. You know what? They’re right.
My information came from a single source who declined to speak on the record. His [...]
dan tynan on Nov 24 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, politics
If not for help from a handful of geeks, Connecticut school teacher Julie Amero would be in prison right now for crimes she didn’t commit. What’s wrong with this picture?
