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Pandora Subpoenaed in Federal Grand-Jury Probe Over Personal Data
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/04/pandora_subpoenaed_in_federal.html
Does not surprise.
oh so its illegal for pandora to collect demographics, but google, yahoo, bing, facebook, myspace, etc.. can have a field day with it?
Anyone that has dabbled into any type of advertising knows that demographics is the key. Pandora doesn't REVEAL the demographics, but rather allow the advertisers to pick their target audience (male, age of XX, on network XXXX, with phone XXXX).
Same way as facebook targets you with their ads. Facebook not only allows advertisers to target you based on your personal information (age, gender, education, location), but they also allow targeting through what you "Like", and who your friends are.
Pandora is just getting ****ed in the ass for this, without even doing anything wrong.
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oh so its illegal for pandora to collect demographics, but google, yahoo, bing, facebook, myspace, etc.. can have a field day with it?
Anyone that has dabbled into any type of advertising knows that demographics is the key. Pandora doesn't REVEAL the demographics, but rather allow the advertisers to pick their target audience (male, age of XX, on network XXXX, with phone XXXX).
Same way as facebook targets you with their ads. Facebook not only allows advertisers to target you based on your personal information (age, gender, education, location), but they also allow targeting through what you "Like", and who your friends are.
Pandora is just getting ****ed in the ass for this, without even doing anything wrong.
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The question is...does it stipulate that this is done in the ToS?
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Article he posted doesn't say that.
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The question is...does it stipulate that this is done in the ToS?
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It doesn't have to. Because they aren't giving away your info. They are just storing it and matching what the advertiser wants with what you want.
Here is what facebook has on it:
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You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.
We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.
You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as such.
As long as the pandora ToS states that they are allowed to store content/name/location/etc.. which it most likely does, then I don't see how this can be problematic.
And they do say that:
http://www.pandora.com/privacy
All the news media and everyone that is making this a big deal doesn't know the first thing about how advertising works, and are hyping it up as if pandora is actually going out and dropping your name/email/gender/age/etc.. to the advertisers. And thats not how it works. The advertisers give specifics for their campaign, and then pandora matches their specifics to their database, and delivers the ads.
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Article he posted doesn't say that.
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Why doesn't it I just read both?
Last-Chance said:
It doesn't have to. Because they aren't giving away your info. They are just storing it and matching what the advertiser wants with what you want.
Here is what facebook has on it:
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You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.
We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.
You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as such.
As long as the pandora ToS states that they are allowed to store content/name/location/etc.. which it most likely does, then I don't see how this can be problematic.
And they do say that:
http://www.pandora.com/privacy
All the news media and everyone that is making this a big deal doesn't know the first thing about how advertising works, and are hyping it up as if pandora is actually going out and dropping your name/email/gender/age/etc.. to the advertisers. And thats not how it works. The advertisers give specifics for their campaign, and then pandora matches their specifics to their database, and delivers the ads.
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They know how advertising works - they depend on it which is also why they run stories like this. As for everyone else, what you expect free stuff to not have some type of business model that takes advantage of your usage? Even if you pay for Pandora One you have or had the freedom to not use or subscribe.
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Last-Chance said:
oh so its illegal for pandora to collect demographics, but google, yahoo, bing, facebook, myspace, etc.. can have a field day with it?
Anyone that has dabbled into any type of advertising knows that demographics is the key. Pandora doesn't REVEAL the demographics, but rather allow the advertisers to pick their target audience (male, age of XX, on network XXXX, with phone XXXX).
Same way as facebook targets you with their ads. Facebook not only allows advertisers to target you based on your personal information (age, gender, education, location), but they also allow targeting through what you "Like", and who your friends are.
Pandora is just getting ****ed in the ass for this, without even doing anything wrong.
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you should actually read the article, instead of just the headline.
Pandora is not the subject of the investigation, and they were not the only ones subpoenaed.
In fact, in a securities filing for an initial public offering, the company revealed that it had been served a subpoena to turn over information for a federal grand-jury probe into the way smartphone software developers disclose personal data. Pandora isn't the target of the investigation — similar subpoenas have been issued to other publishers that run on the iPhone and Android operating systems.
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subpoenas aren't only given to those who are accused of or suspected of a crime, they are information-gathering tools for law enforcement agencies.
Android Applications Android Latest Android News Latest News Security POSTED: 08/8/11 3:04 PM 18 0
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Itzhak Avraham - A Security researcher just unveiled an app called Anti, or Android Network Toolkit at Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday and plans to make available to Android in coming days. The app is designed to bring easy hacking on the go which brings all the hacking tools available to penetration testers on PCs to smartphones, with an automated interface intended to make sniffing local networks and owning remote servers as simple as pushing a few buttons.
While Anti will be great for researcher to do mobile pen testing, it could be very dangerous and a hacker could, for instance, walk into a coffee shop or a corporate office with his phone and connect in public WiFI to start sussing out machines for data theft or malware infection. Here is what Avraham says:
“Anti is your perfect mobile companion, doing it all for you. Please remember, with great power comes great responsibility. Use it wisely.”
Anti, will be available on Android Market next week as a free app with a $10 corporate upgrade and will ask users in its terms of service to limit their hacking to “white hat” penetration testing.
Every defcon they come out with vapor ware. I'll believe it if or when they even post a beta somewhere by the end of the month. I seriously doubt it will be out by the end of next week on the market.
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Every defcon they come out with vapor ware. I'll believe it if or when they even post a beta somewhere by the end of the month. I seriously doubt it will be out by the end of next week on the market.
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Definitely not vaporware as I have it on my phone right now. The beta is out and going well... Zuk's a smart man and a good friend
Being in the security business, I really look forward to see how many vectors & versions will be included...
Hope it'll be good.
Cant wait till it comes out.
Here is his website with a semblance of a price structure/feature list.
Download is for beta testers only at the moment.
edit - silly posting rules (no urls allowed)
zimperium.com/Android_Network_Toolkit.html
Hi, i know that you get this question all the time but, how can a get the apk or how can i be a beta tester? Should i just wait until this app is available in the android market? I will apreciate if you reply my message, have a nice day
Anti, will be available on Android Market next week as a free app with a $10 corporate upgrade and will ask users in its terms of service to limit their hacking to “white hat” penetration testing.
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$10 corporate upgrade. In no time it 'll be free on the net.....
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What is Anti?
ZImperium "Anti" LTD is proud to annonce Android Network Toolkit - Anti.
Anti consists of 2 parts: The Anti version itself and extendable plugins. Upcoming updates will add functionality, plugins or vulnerabilities/exploits to Anti
Using Anti is very intuitive - on each run, Anti will map your network, scan for active devices and vulnerabilities, and will display the information accordingly: Green led signals an 'Active device', Yellow led signals "Available ports", and Red led signals "Vulnerability found". Also, each device will have an icon representing the type of the device. When finished scanning, Anti will produce an automatic report specifying which vulnerabilities you have or bad practices used, and how to fix each one of them.
What is AntiCredit?
AntiCredit is the app to purchase status and credits for Anti usage.
Once you buy Silver, Gold or Platinum(for corporate users and power users), your status is saved forever. You can use MITM,DOS,SPY,REPLACE IMAGES and other features like PASSWORD CRACKER, but you also get N amount of credits, these credits can be used for attacks and reports.
Once Anti has mapped your network, it is time to choose the attack method:
[+] Scan - This will scan the selected target for open ports and vulnerabilities, also allowing the user to select a specific scanning script for a more advanced/targeted scan.
[+] Spy - This will 'sniff' images transferred to/from the selected device and display them on your phone in a nice gallery layout. If you choose a network subnet/range as target, then all images transferred on that network - for all connected devices - will be shown. Another feature of the Spy plugin is to sniff URLs (web sites) and non-secured (ie, not HTTPS) username/passwords logins, shown on the bottom drawer.
[+] D.O.S - This will cause a Denial Of Service (D.O.S) for the selected target, ie. it will deny them any further access to the internet until you exit the attack.
[+] Replace images - This will replace all images transferred to/from the target with an Anti logo, thus preventing from attacked used seeing any images on their browsers while the browse the internet, except for a nice looking Anti logo...
[+] M.I.T.M - The Man In The Middle attack (M.I.T.M) is an advanced attack used mainly in combination with other attack. It allows invoking specific filters to manipulate the network data. Users can also add their own mitm filters to create more mitm attacks.
[+] Attack - This will initiate a vulnerability attack using our Cloud service against a specific target. Once executed successfully, it will allow the attack to control the device remotely from your phone.
[+] Report - This will generate a vulnerability report with findings, recommendations and tips on how to fix found vulnerabilities or bad practices used.
Anti supports & uses the followings OSS tools :
nmap
Ettercap
driftnet
THC-Hydra
Metasploit
We will be releasing patch sets for OSS shortly. This should assist developers to compile binaries used by Anti!
nice.
Could you sum up what data I should expect to see that your application is sending back to you ?
I'd like to know what you are sending home, even using this tool could violate an pentesting NDA.
The best would be if you sent absolutely nothing back - but I guess you are a bit more curious than that.
anti (android network toolkit)
it's out but you can only get the lite version because you can't pay that .
the app that you can purchase anti gold or whatever is pull of from android market of is not released .
so theire is now danger to this app !!!
where can found platinium ver. (cracked)
requesting warez is a bannable offence under xda rules of use.
Box v1.4.2.2 (+ How to get free 50GB storage)
Requirements: Android 1.6+
Overview: Box for Android and Android Tablet lets you view and share files from anywhere.
Box provides simple, secure sharing from anywhere – letting you easily store files online, send big files fast, access content on your Android phone or tablet, and collaborate with others. Box for Android gives you 5 GB FREE to:
* Upload, access and view content on your Android phone or tablet
* Download files for offline access
* File caching for faster access to key content
* SSO for simple login process
* Easily share files and folders with links
* Find files fast with built-in search
* Save files you create in other Android apps to your Box account
* Upgrade to Box Business to collaborate with shared workspaces and sync files to your PC for offline access.
No wonder more than 7 million users, including 82% of the FORTUNE 500, rely on Box for simple, secure content sharing. Companies such as Pandora, TaylorMade, Clear Channel and Six Flags are successfully building collaborative mobile workforces and realizing the benefits of Box's mobile solution -- which saves a typical company over 3,000 hours a month.
"I haven't taken my laptop on the road since I started with Box. I run the entire company off my tablet." - Lance Locher, SVP, Clear Channel - Total Traffic Network
“In this firm, there's been a huge move to a new mobile workforce. Having cloud-based, mobile access to our content has saved an immeasurable amount of time." -- Greg Dasher, Integrated Projects Director, Balfour Beatty Construction
HOW TO GET FREE 50GB STORAGE (your phone need to be rooted):
1. Download Box and install on your Androdi device.
2. Use Root Explorer (or something like that) to edit the file build.prop in system folder (root/system):
edit these two lines to look like this (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST);
ro.product.manufacturer=LGE
ro.product.model=VS910 4G
RESTART the Phone
3. Open the box app and register for a new account and you should receive a 50GB account.
This offer ends on the 31st of december so make the most of it.
Dont forget to restore your original build.prop after.
Download Instructions:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/4308672295/50GB.zip
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Just restart the phone with the fake build.prop and log in again in BOX.
I have 4 accouunts with my Desire
Worked a treat for me.
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This worked like a charm. Thank you very much for the tip!
ty
thnxs for sharing this very usefull info worked perfect and im really gratefull
Thanks
Thank you very much for the tip. I am gratefull !
I use it with es file explorer it's just super!
It works! thanks! but the 50Gb upgrade is for ever or there is a expiration date?
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It works! thanks! but the 50Gb upgrade is for ever or there is a expiration date?
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You have until December 31, 2012 to claim your storage, but once you do, it’s yours forever!
Works perfectly. Thanks for the tip
Worked great. 50GB
I don't know what to do with 50gb atm but hey it's 50gb! Thanks!
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This was extremely useful for me..Sharing all my kernels with this. Perfect.
Yep, worked for me as well! thanks OP!
hi,
works fine, thks for the tips
Working for me Tnx for share
this'll come in handy for my new android tablet.
Thanks OP
Thanks for this, Worked for me What the dickens am i going to use the 50GB for though . . . .
Worked
Thanks for this got myself 2 accounts 100Gs should do me fine
By David Meyer
In a boon to those about to head off for their summer holidays, Google is to make it possible for people to use its mobile Maps app without a cellular data connection.
Google Maps already had this feature, at least on Android, as a Labs add-on. However, that required a tricky procedure whereby the user had to select a centre point around which a limited area would be pre-cached. On Wednesday the company said it was making the offline capability official and easier to use.
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"Offline Google Maps for Android are coming in the next few weeks," Google Maps engineering chief Brian McClendon wrote in a a blog post. "Users will be able to take maps offline from more than 100 countries. This means that the next time you are on the subway, or don't have a data connection, you can still use our maps."
The announcement also contained several other updates for the mapping app. For those who want to use Google Maps while hiking, Google is to send 'Street View Trekkers' to photograph wilderness areas that can only be accessed by foot.
The company is also extending its Map Maker feedback-and-corrections service to South Africa and Egypt, with Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland all set to get access in the next few weeks.
The moves come as a rival system, OpenStreetMap, continues to gain traction, partly through its use by Apple. OpenStreetMap is, as the name suggests, open source, and it has always been built on user contributions and edits.
On Wednesday Google also announced an update to its Google Earth virtual globe. While it has been possible for the last six years to create 3D models of specific buildings, the company will soon add entire metropolitan areas in three dimensions, as demonstrated in a video.
"This is possible thanks to a combination of our new imagery rendering techniques and computer vision that let us automatically create 3D cityscapes, complete with buildings, terrain and even landscaping, from 45-degree aerial imagery," McClendon wrote. "By the end of the year we aim to have 3D coverage for metropolitan areas with a combined population of 300 million people."
Thats great news! So does this mean that I can be home, connected to WIFI and download the maps for my area, and then just go out with no data/wifi and I will be able to use the navigation feature as a GPS?
My question is where is this offline map going to be stored; Sdcard, cache,...(That's right!! I used a semi-colon)
I don't use maps on my phone at all. Have actually uninstalled the apk, because it was always running in the background eating battery. I do keep it on my tablet but that is bc it is wifi and when asleep it doesn't use data which doesn't use battery.
( ... heard there was a Zen party going on in here ... )
I've used the offline maps Labs addon in the past, but it was only limited to 10 download points. Forgot how large the download radius was, but it was only ok (not wood inducing). I'm curious to see whether this will truly allow you to download offline data all the way down to street level view (as purported in an article I read).
I use Locus Pro on my Tab, and I've used it to download tiles from Google Maps as a source. It's limited to downloading 10,000 tiles per day (from Google), which sounds like a lot but really isn't esp. if you're saving multiple zoom levels per target area. Adds up real quick. Not sure the number of tiles I've downloaded thus far, but it's about 250 MB worth of sd card space. Lol.
I'm curious to see what Google brings us. Any offline map is always handy anyhoo.
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My question is where is this offline map going to be stored; Sdcard, cache,...(That's right!! I used a semi-colon)
I don't use maps on my phone at all. Have actually uninstalled the apk, because it was always running in the background eating battery. I do keep it on my tablet but that is bc it is wifi and when asleep it doesn't use data which doesn't use battery.
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I remember trying an app that did something like this, and the maps took up ENORMOUS amounts of memory. i guess this wouldnt be an issue for someone who is nice to their sdcard, but for someone like me who is always tinkering on 90%+ full...im good with the way it is now. but hey, its a good option....options are always a plus.
What I can't wait for is the new Maps that Apple is planning on showing, i think its next week?
Apparently, 3D etc. etc. Nothing that Google doesn't have.
I love how google just plans their maps event before Apples and Apple was the first one to plan it in the beginning (this sentence makes no sense i just re-read it -.-)
Heya!
So as the title states, is/will it be possible to port Android Wear (maybe even Wear 2) over to the Ticwatch 2? Since the watch runs Ticwear OS which is based on Android we should have all the blobs/drivers available to run the same Android Wear version on the watch itself or am I wrong here?
Thanks already!
Hi all, I got my Ticwatch 2 today and I'm also interested in the possibilities. Anyone?
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Hi all, I got my Ticwatch 2 today and I'm also interested in the possibilities. Anyone?
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Oh nice! Is the Oak/Onyx shipping now?
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Oh nice! Is the Oak/Onyx shipping now?
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My Onyx just arrived. Check Kickstarter updates, they have a query page where you can enter your email and it spits out your DHL tracking number.
Furthermore, I'd absolutely love to turn this gorgeous, well crafted piece of hardware into a fully fledged Android Wear device.
Hope someone can!
I really hope someone can get it to work as well.
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My Onyx just arrived. Check Kickstarter updates, they have a query page where you can enter your email and it spits out your DHL tracking number.
Furthermore, I'd absolutely love to turn this gorgeous, well crafted piece of hardware into a fully fledged Android Wear device.
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Ah well, still says "Final packaging" for me
I have a Snow and Onyx and am happy to help
Getting AW and or AW2 compatibility would be huge for this, a whole new rom... that might be a stretch but this place has had me hacking away at android for 4-5 years now at least, game on.
LGSONE
Anyone up for a TW2 subforum?
Maybe we could find some dedicated developers to get stuff going if we had one !
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Been discussed at length here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android-wear/help/ticwatch-to-translate-english-to-t3262677
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No, that's for the Ticwatch 1, not for the Ticwatch 2!
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No, that's for the Ticwatch 1, not for the Ticwatch 2!
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Oops, I did not read closely, just saw the Ticwatch and knew there was a thread. More coffee needed!
I would kill for a new android ROM to flash on this thing. I was hoping there'd be more chatter on this forum, but I guess it's to be expected considering it's just now ending up in people's hands.
If it allowed for the creation of an Android Wear-compatible Ticwatch 2, I'd lend my current one out to a respected developer here on XDA.
I have an onyx. I really love this watch but android wear would be more powerful -> native language, more apps etc.
Please! Make it happen
It would be great.
I would help as far as i can
Well, we have a chinese only Android Wear ROM so we'd have the drivers for the hardware possibly, but how easy will it be to port a normal Android Wear ROM over to it with those if even possible?
Well, my idea is porting the Framework and Launcher from wear to normal Android. Ok, my purpose is for a Phone ( Fun Recycling Project) but thats just Hardware difference
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Activate developer mode to sync wear apps
Here's what an avid user from the FB Ticwatch 2 group found out: In the ticwear app, tap on the ticwear app's version number to activate developer mode. In "advanced settings" activate the "1024" option and then sync the apps. This also causes all wear apps to sync to the watch. Note that any apps that require a connection to the phone to sync data will not work properly. An example of a working app is Task Manager For Android Wear. Let's see what else we can discover!
This is a good hint. I activate it and now i have all my android-wear supported apps in my watch drawer. But they are not working. Eg. google maps:
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I think it is just the "connection" part missing.
Because apps that dont need to be directly connected to the phone work well. like games
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Here's what an avid user from the FB Ticwatch 2 group found out: In the ticwear app, tap on the ticwear app's version number to activate developer mode. In "advanced settings" activate the "1024" option and then sync the apps. This also causes all wear apps to sync to the watch. Note that any apps that require a connection to the phone to sync data will not work properly. An example of a working app is Task Manager For Android Wear. Let's see what else we can discover!
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Damn that's a nice hint! Awesome, I'll give it a shot thanks