TECH.BLORGE updates: Facebook, Penthouse, Android & BitDefender
We have several updates to recent stories on our TECH channel. First up, it’s now looking as if Facebook’s change of heart over planned changes to its terms and conditions had less to do with user outrage and more to do with the threat of legal problems.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center had put together a 25 page complaint to the Federal Trade Commission arguing that maintaining rights to user content after an account cancellation was fundamentally unfair. The group says it will continue to monitor Facebook’s actions and is taking a keen interest in the way privacy restrictions work with third-party applications on the site.
Contrary to my original (now edited) post on Monday, Shawna Lenee is not the current Penthouse ‘Pet of the Month’. She is in fact the runner up in this year’s ‘Pet of the Year’ contest. Embarrassingly this information is clearly stated in the cover image displayed with a story I quoted. For some reason I did not notice the text on the image when I originally saw it.
A couple of new apps have been announced for the Android phone system as part of the World Mobile Congress event. Google showed off Android and iPhone editions of its offline reader for Gmail meaning users can combine the benefits of webmail with the convenience of offline storage. The tool should be particularly useful for business travelers who need to refer to stored e-mails in areas without reception such as on board planes.
Meanwhile Guitar Hero is making its way to the Android system, with reports that controls will involve tapping the device’s screen in the same way as the Tap Tap game on the iPhone. Presumably Radiohead’s Paranoid Android won’t be among the tunes on offer.
Two weeks ago we reported that the hacker who broke into a customer database for security firm Kaspersky had also found his way into the site of a reseller for rival firm BitDefender. At the time BitDefender didn’t appear too upset by the hacking, giving the public impression of taking it as a useful warning. The same hacker has now claimed to have breached security on the BitDefender website itself and the firm’s response is much more scathing this time. Spokesman Vitor Souzer told the Tech Herald that the hacker, known as ‘Unu’, did not find a vulnerability and simply saw some material displayed in an unintended manner.
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February 20th, 2009
I understood from “The Tech Herald” that Kaspersky was really hacked, and some private data was exposed, but I also see it didn’t happened to BitDefender, no data was exposed. So I’m very dissapointed that Kaspersky didn’t secured their site.
February 20th, 2009
BitDefender IS is really a very good security suite, I have this suite for a lot of time and upgraded every year for free to a new version. I had kaspersky before buying bitdefender IS, it seems that kaspersky skipped some viruses because right after installing BitDefender it detected a lot of them.
February 23rd, 2009
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