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Hey everyone,
The recent events with MegaUpload have resulted in a variety of file sharing sites discontinuing their services. I'm posting this thread as I read a Lifehacker article today which explicitly states sites that have begun shuttering their services. I'm just passing info you all may find resourceful. Here is a link to the article:
http://lifehacker.com/5878480/the-state-of-filesharing-websites
Yeah not surprising. Still hundreds of others to choose from, but it's a bad sign when sites are doing this. I like uploading to 10+ sources then another copy on my trusty HD. The sad thing is this is done with our current laws, think about what could be done if a new law passes that doesn't require sites to be on trial. Internet destroyed.
Not surprising at all, except the shock I experienced when visiting their site. Wasn't expecting them to just disappear.
Everyone knows about Dropbox I guess, but one media sharing site I have always enjoyed is Mediafire. The one drawback is the max filesize is 200MB but it's proven itself useful to me several times. Just thought I would mention something nice that wasn't talked about in that article.
It seems like the strategy is to shutter these services and then eliminate bittorrent so that most pirates' plan b is non-existant
DustinBooyah said:
It seems like the strategy is to shutter these services and then eliminate bittorrent so that most pirates' plan b is non-existant
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There's so many other ways to pirate too that most people don't even know about
I'm sure there are plenty of alternatives, power to the user and whatnot. I was more so surprised at how several other sites immediately slowed or shut down once MegaUpload was taken down. I'm all for removal of sites that intentionally host pirated movies/music but it takes on another dimension when people with legitimate files have no access to them. Again, that's why you save your files in various locations.
POQbum said:
The sad thing is this is done with our current laws, think about what could be done if a new law passes that doesn't require sites to be on trial. Internet destroyed.
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this... people need to realize what can happen if these new laws pass.
I just went to the Samsung site looking for their Customer Forums where could report some bugs in their latest OTA and suggest some improvements.
THERE ARE NONE.
Seriously, a multi-billion dollar company with NO way for their customers to interact, get problems solved or make suggestions. Nothing. It is inconceivable to me that in the year 2012 a company the size of Samsung would be in the stone ages of customer interaction.
Want to know how they get customer feedback? You log on and post a review of the product. That's it! No interaction, no feedback, no idea if anyone even saw what you wrote - you just post a review and pray.
Yeah you can go to Samsung's Facebook page and post something on their wall but that's not a proper forum.
http://www.facebook.com/samsungsupport
I am honestly dumbfounded at this revelation.
They do it on social media. In a pretty big way too.
Surely, in your research of the GN 10.1, you found that out - I did. They do have a question and answer area.
A "rant" is neither productive nor helpful. They don't have forums. Period.
BarryH_GEG said:
They do it on social media. In a pretty big way too.
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Social media is a pathetic replacement for an actual Forum. Lol, can you imagine xda-developers as a Facebook page?
Massive fail Samsung. It's clear from some of the changes they made in the last OTA that they aren't listening to the users.
toenail_flicker said:
A "rant" is neither productive nor helpful. They don't have forums. Period.
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That's probably why they don't have forums. Not enough people ranting. You'll have to forgive me. I didn't research whether Samsung had customer forums. I just assumed they weren't living in 1960.
I am endeavoring to report some bugs on their Facebook page. I have no idea if anyone else has already reported these or if there is follow-up as their "forum" has no apparent structure. Will report back if I get any feedback.
unfortunately yes.
I've been looking for its own forums few years back, and find NONE. :cyclops:
They rather use a facebook page, which we don't know the page is being maintained by who.
But, if you need a fast response, you can try their website, there's a LIVECHAT down there.
Facebook is really a pathetic idea to make it as the main forum of such a big company (in my opinion).
If facebook is being used as an additional media, then yes, it's a good idea.
Time for Mr. Peabody's WABAC Machine
For support: Not a forum and not Facebook.
Samsung needs a Web and Android App accessible Support database.
From 1979 to 2002 I was an IBM Mainframe Systems Programmer at UF in Gainesville Florida, then at the School Board of Alachua County Florida.
I watched large companies like IBM and CA move into the web era with their Support. I moved with them from phone calls and mailing fix tapes to Customer Searchable Databases with user entry for new issues, and with Downloadable Fixes for resolved issues.
Of course, way back then issues for my organization affected 10s of thousands of people where resolving an issue meant dealing with only one person in our organization.
Moving forward to today, we've got 10s of thousands of people and many, many more who all need their individual fixes. Very time consuming compared to dealing with one person.
This is one reason why more and more OTA forced SW updating is happening and why the big companies are pushing cloud computing. Such as Google evolving the Chrome platform; Adobe offering Creative Cloud; and VMWare and IBM competing for hosting Enterprise virtual computers.
Aloha.. Al :highfive:
Is it just me or do 80% of their Facebook Support moderators look like complete burnouts?
If a Forum is too hard for them how about a simple Suggestion Box where users can report bugs directly to the Design Team?
My faith in their meeting future needs with OTA's is greatly diminished. Hopefully they will surprise me.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31024209&postcount=24
You might get more feed back by directing your rants here. :cyclops:
tonyz3 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31024209&postcount=24
You might get more feed back by directing your rants here. :cyclops:
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tonyz3,
I think you should put in an application to work for the Samsung Design Team, you seem like their kind of guy. :cyclops:
They used to have customer Forum. I was a member. They were so heavily censored, that you could say virtually nothing negative.
When the Galaxy S was having GPS issues, a class action suit was initiated about the GPS problem. I posted this fact and my post was edited to eliminate the sentence stating that. My post appeared but the words "Class Action Lawsuit" magically disappeared!
Moderators would actually cut pieces out of your posts before they would appear.
I then tried to send a private message to another forum member about the censorship and they censored and blocked the private messages as well and then sent me a message saying any more communications of that type would get me banned.
I then posted a second time to the main forum complaining that they were censoring negative posts and was in fact banned from the forum. So there isn't much of a point to a Forum where you aren't alowed to communicate.
So perhaps they just decided to institute the ultimate form of censorship and eliminate the forum altogether.
Digital Man said:
They used to have customer Forum. I was a member. They were so heavily censored, that you could say virtually nothing negative.
When the Galaxy S was having GPS issues, a class action suit was initiated about the GPS problem. I posted this fact and my post was edited to eliminate the sentence stating that. My post appeared but the words "Class Action Lawsuit" magically disappeared!
Moderators would actually cut pieces out of your posts before they would appear.
I then tried to send a private message to another forum member about the censorship and they censored and blocked the private messages as well and then sent me a message saying any more communications of that type would get me banned.
I then posted a second time to the main forum complaining that they were censoring negative posts and was in fact banned from the forum. So there isn't much of a point to a Forum where you aren't alowed to communicate.
So perhaps they just decided to institute the ultimate form of censorship and eliminate the forum altogether.
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Oh well, they make nice tablets and if we get the same software as the Note II we will all be happy campers.
mitchellvii said:
Oh well, they make nice tablets and if we get the same software as the Note II we will all be happy campers.
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+1
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So people are at least slightly aware of the news about NSA/PRISM and how Google is taking part in handing over our personal data.
I know it's a small step but I'm thinking of removing Gapps and making my phone slightly less compromised than it is now.
Anyone else done this? I've already been recommended F-Droid as an alternative by someone, it's probably not even 10% as good as the Play store but I'm more concerned with not being snooped on.
Removing GAPPS lol doesn't mean Google can't still put ads on your phone...and like all of us on this forum why would anyone spy on us.. Unless we are in the mob or a criminal...I'm sure Google has no interest in snooping on you man.don't be so paranoid
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And all these people who think Google is snooping on them look dumb...Google is using your actions..like clicked ads and what you buy... Why would a billion dollar company want to spy on a no name android user
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This is a valid question which I'd also like answered. I suspect that running CM or other AOSP ROMs without installing GApps will be sufficient.
Those who do not appreciate this discussion are kindly invited to abstain from commenting.
Im sure even without Gapps there is some low level thing that can collect your data.. Android is maintained by Google..
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Im sure even without Gapps there is some low level thing that can collect your data.. Android is maintained by Google..
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When using CyanogenMod there isn't. Only if you install apps that do this.
And seriously, stop with the trolling. You're not helping the discussion and you're getting reported. I'm not "afraid", "butthurt", or "paranoid". Google have openly admitted that they don't care about our privacy.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gmail-users-privacy-email-lawsuit
wrsg said:
When using CyanogenMod there isn't. Only if you install apps that do this.
And seriously, stop with the trolling. You're not helping the discussion and you're getting reported. I'm not "afraid", "butthurt", or "paranoid". Google have openly admitted that they don't care about our privacy.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gmail-users-privacy-email-lawsuit
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Nono i would just like to hear your view on it, take a look at this quote from Pulser_g2
Another unaddressed concern is why CM would prefer someone else make a privacy fork, rather than care about user privacy within the ROM (beyond the anti-leech properties of privacy guard). Apparently that wasn't within the scope of what they were doing.
Surely CM should be trying to push the envelope, making a fully usable and amazing experience ROM, as Steve said above, without betraying their users to advertisers and tracking networks who profit from selling the user as a product. While privacy guard is a good "half step" (stops apps like faces from harvesting your contacts without permission, for those who use it), it remains a half step, as it's still possible to uniquely identify a user by their device by any app, without any permissions (ahem, CPU serial and device serial number).
Since the user can't easily change these, they can forever be tracked, and have their actions sold on to others, based on these identifiers. Is that OK to do to the user, after telling them they're protected by privacy guard?
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From here Link
Personally dont think this is "trolling" but if you feel the need to report then please do.
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Nono i would just like to hear your view on it, take a look at this quote from Pulser_g2
From here Link
Personally dont think this is "trolling" but if you feel the need to report then please do.
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Sorry, the request to stop the trolling wasn't meant at you. I just didn't think it was worth quoting each of them separately.
Thread closed
This thread leads to non-sense posts or flaming.
You like the Google Apps use them, you don't like them or don't trust them don't use them, this is that simple
Hello! I'm doing my bachelor thesis on Android security issues and I'd love to hear what you guys think about it, mainly on how you work with security issues when you develop your apps!
I threw together a quick 10 question multiple answer google docs form, should take 2-3 min max to fill out and it would really help me and hopefully lead to something that will benefit the android dev community when it's finished!
It's totally anonymous and requires no registration and i don't need any contact info to you :fingers-crossed:
LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fvs166K4C9lcv7bHeNnOLfeaHK3LQNmc1qGffWWYjO4/viewform
(While i'm aware that this is technically a question I felt it goes under discussion rather than being a simple Q&A post, so that's why i posted here instead of the Q&A forum, hope you agree!)
Hi!
I read your questions but I don't think it's as easy as that.
The time spent on security varies very much with the kind the of app. For example, you don't need to spend much time on security if there's no network interaction and no sensitive data which needs to be stored.
So I would have entered that I spend no time on security. That, however, doesn't mean that I wouldn't spend time on security if an app would require that.
Do you get my point?
QuestionAsker said:
Hello! I'm doing my bachelor thesis on Android security issues and I'd love to hear what you guys think about it, mainly on how you work with security issues when you develop your apps!
I threw together a quick 10 question multiple answer google docs form, should take 2-3 min max to fill out and it would really help me and hopefully lead to something that will benefit the android dev community when it's finished!
It's totally anonymous and requires no registration and i don't need any contact info to you :fingers-crossed:
LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fvs166K4C9lcv7bHeNnOLfeaHK3LQNmc1qGffWWYjO4/viewform
(While i'm aware that this is technically a question I felt it goes under discussion rather than being a simple Q&A post, so that's why i posted here instead of the Q&A forum, hope you agree!)
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I completed it but I think there are maybe 2 quite different questions here...
1) Security from a user's perspective (i.e. their personal data)
2) Security from a developer's perspective (i.e. their IP / product)
I guess they overlap a bit but as a developer you need to consider both separately.
PicomatStudios said:
I completed it but I think there are maybe 2 quite different questions here...
1) Security from a user's perspective (i.e. their personal data)
2) Security from a developer's perspective (i.e. their IP / product)
I guess they overlap a bit but as a developer you need to consider both separately.
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Thanks for the input, i was hoping to discuss the relationship between the user and the developer by examining how the developer handles the users data and to what extent the user can take control over the data s/he has inputted if for some reason s/he would like to make sure that the data never will end up somewhere it shouldn't. Because this data can be obtained in different ways, the survey has questions that could be perceived to relate to different questions perhaps? I should probably have written about the end goal more in detail
Anyways, thanks for participating!
QuestionAsker said:
Thanks for the input, i was hoping to discuss the relationship between the user and the developer by examining how the developer handles the users data and to what extent the user can take control over the data s/he has inputted if for some reason s/he would like to make sure that the data never will end up somewhere it shouldn't. Because this data can be obtained in different ways, the survey has questions that could be perceived to relate to different questions perhaps? I should probably have written about the end goal more in detail
Anyways, thanks for participating!
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OK, I see.
I work on a Keyboard app.
There's an interesting phenomenon you might be interested in regarding 3rd party keyboards... almost all of them require internet permission.
When we started out we figured that nobody would download a keyboard with internet permission, as that's all you need for a keylogger.. we were wrong about that though ! In the end, the usability issues with having to download multiple language pack apps troubled more people than the potential security issues in downloading an internet-aware keyboard.
There's another one, which is that our app (and others) is quite heavily pirated and distributed on blogs etc (we know that, because we can measure how many apps are downloaded vs the number of language installations there have been). That's despite the fact that an unofficial copy could very easily be a keylogger - it still doesn't put people off !
PicomatStudios said:
OK, I see.
I work on a Keyboard app.
There's an interesting phenomenon you might be interested in regarding 3rd party keyboards... almost all of them require internet permission.
When we started out we figured that nobody would download a keyboard with internet permission, as that's all you need for a keylogger.. we were wrong about that though ! In the end, the usability issues with having to download multiple language pack apps troubled more people than the potential security issues in downloading an internet-aware keyboard.
There's another one, which is that our app (and others) is quite heavily pirated and distributed on blogs etc (we know that, because we can measure how many apps are downloaded vs the number of language installations there have been). That's despite the fact that an unofficial copy could very easily be a keylogger - it still doesn't put people off !
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Hehe that's indeed pretty interesting. I know lots of people who don't even bother reading the permissions of apps, even knowing that Play is full of malicious content.
Knowing how picky moderators are in these forums, I wouldn't post this here if I weren't convinced that it can be useful to at least one potential buyer, and to at least one WP8 developer.
In my review I'm not providing reasons, but facts, backed up with screenshots. Someone said that where there are facts there is no room for reasons.
Of course I'll update my review when and if I realize some of the issues I've listed prove to have some easy workaround.
Here's the link: +50 screenshots against Windows Phones. A WP8 issues review.
Hope at least some of you find it interesting.
Well you have some points but generally all the so called review is plain bs...
zogoibi said:
Knowing how picky moderators are in these forums, I wouldn't post this here if I weren't convinced that it can be useful to at least one potential buyer, and to at least one WP8 developer.
In my review I'm not providing reasons, but facts, backed up with screenshots. Someone said that where there are facts there is no room for reasons.
Of course I'll update my review when and if I realize some of the issues I've listed prove to have some easy workaround.
Here's the link: +25 screenshots against Windows Phones. A WP8 issues review.
Hope at least some of you find it interesting.
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I also have a Lumia 925 and I've never had some of the issues you post here. For example, I've used Whatsapp AND Facebook intensely on long trips (6 hrs approx) by bus, going through places with strong and weak signals and when I got home after the trip, I still have like 20 or 18% of battery life. Maybe it's because I have at most 4 apps running in the background, but still that doesn't explain why your whatsapp and viber consume so much battery.
About the data sharing feature, I think that's carrier dependent. There are some firmwares that have restrictions in the network sharing features (mostly the ones installed by the operators) so that you buy special data sharing features from them (T-Mobile and AT&T do that). I live in Chile, and fortunately operators don't do that here, so I can share data wifi with my laptop even when I have only 1 bar of 3G or 4G signal, Never tried that on roaming though, but I think it would have the restrictions you mention.
Advertising ID is basically a "glorified" version of "do not track" feature of modern web browsers. Nothing fancy, just that.
Phone updates behaves erratically. At least for me, sometimes it takes a looooooonnggg time to do anything, and sometimes it works really fast. Don't know why though.
WiFi sense sucks. Period.
About contacts...eerrmm... why would I want to store the contacts on the SIM card, where it's limited as hell? It makes sense to store the contacts on the cloud (whether it's Google's cloud, Yahoo's cloud or Microsoft or whatever) and download them in your new phone rather than sending them via Bluetooth. When I bought this phone, I downloaded my contacts from my Google account (the one that I used with an Android phone) and it worked fine. In fact, you can save your contacts on the cloud and then access them on an iPhone or Blackberry with no hassle at all.
Map updates restrictions make no sense at all and I agree with you 100%. They should at least give the option to let that run in the background.
The random freezes and "resuming..." issue is a well known issue for some Lumias 925s and 1020s and it's being fixed by Microsoft within the Denim update. My Lumia 925 doesn't have it, but it's because it uses a Latin American firmware and its a Latin American version (although, it is compatible with the european firmwares). If you want that issue fixed right now, you can always install the finnish firmware to your phone and then download the update, because as far as I know, the finnish firmware is the only one right now that it has the fix, but it is coming to the rest of Europe soon.
All in all, it was a honest review and that is always appreciated.
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I've never had any of these problems, and most of these complaints van be explained by common sense.
Think about why they've done it that way before complaining, yes there are a lot of restrictions (it's more open than an iphone though) but that's also why it's so secure.
zogoibi said:
Thank you for the constructive reply. I've answered in the original article's comments.
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hmmm you do know that xda isn't here to promote your blog right ?
so if you answer to a question you do it here where you posted your "problems" and don't "force" people to read your complains elsewhere !!!
Greetings Cees Heim.
ceesheim said:
hmmm you do know that xda isn't here to promote your blog right ?
so if you answer to a question you do it here where you posted your "problems" and don't "force" people to read your complains elsewhere !!!
Greetings Cees Heim.
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Oh, please! Do whatever you have to do, ban me or delete the thread, but don't litter it flaming with subjective and unfounded judgements. I take no sermons.
How about taking a thread closure then?
OP...with the constant negative replies and we feel this thread will go nowhere fast and in a hurry.