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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page...
Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online
arstechnica.com
Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content "did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a...
Path Uploads Your iPhone’s Address Book To Their Servers Without A Peep
techcrunch.com
What started as a bit of aimless tinkering for developer Arun Thampi ultimately unearthed something very surprising about personal life-sharing service Path. As a fan of the app, Thampi took it upon himself to look at the API calls that the app made to Path’s service and found that his...
RootSmart Android Malware May Be Able To Sneak By Google’s New Bouncer
techcrunch.com
Remember that Bouncer Google put in the Android Market to act as a goalie for all potential malware attacks? It would seem that Google’s Bouncer doesn’t catch everything as Professor Xuxian Jiang, the same guy who discovered dozens of other Android malware attacks, has found yet another exploit called RootSmart....
FYI: Path uploads your iPhone’s entire address book to their servers
9to5mac.com
Blogger Arun Thampi has discovered something that may or may not sit right about the free social media app Path while packet sniffing the app last night. Upon first installing the app and registering for an account, Path sends every single one of your contacts in your address book to...
Don’t want apps uploading your iPhone contacts? This Cydia tweak stops them
thenextweb.com
As iOS device owners are still digesting the news that popular social application Path sends the complete contact iPhone contact list to its servers, one developer has created a new tweak for jailbroken phones to warn you which apps may do the same. Created by jailbreak app developer Ryan Petrich,...
Chrome 17 released, will preload autocompleted URLs as you type
arstechnica.com
Google has just released Chrome version 17, which brings several minor enhancements to the company's web browser— including a new web address preloading feature and improved protection against malicious downloads. The new Chrome introduces a preemptive rendering" feature that will automatically begin loading and rendering a page in the...
Path: We’ve Deleted All Address Book Data
techcrunch.com
It looks like Path has heeded the words of investor Michael Arrington. Yesterday, the startup faced a major privacy backlash when it was revealed that the social app was uploading user’s address book data without actually telling the user. Co-founder and CEO Dave Morin was apologetic, and there was a...
Facebook is working to finally fix the issue of deleted photos staying live on its site
thenextweb.com
Facebook has confirmed that over the next two months it will finally fix an issue that has left a number of deleted photos live and available on its system. Currently, not all photos that are deleted by users are gone completely as some can still be seen on the social...
6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Reportedly Leaked, LinkedIn Is “Looking Into” It
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If you’re a LinkedIn user, do yourself a favor and change your password right now — according to a new report from Dagens IT, nearly 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords were dumped onto a Russian hacker site. The news comes right on the heels of yet another user security kerfuffle,...
Amazon cuts its S3 storage costs to further incentivise new and existing users
thenextweb.com
Amazon has announced it has cut the cost of its S3 Cloud storage service for users of its small and medium storage tiers, passing on a minimum 10% saving to new and existing subscribers. Noting the change in an official blog post, Amazon recognises the huge growth its S3 service...
Server outage turns Harmony Link into a paperweight
www.engadget.com
The Cloud is great place right? It's all puppy dogs and ice cream, until it isn't. We'd suspect that's what Harmony Link users who ditched their old school remotes for an iOS device are thinking right about now. You see while typical Harmony remote are only programmed via MyHarmony.com,...
Path Is A Free App, And It Will Spy On Us
www.readwriteweb.com
Path is a lovely app. It pushes all the right buttons. It's mobile, it's tactile, it's personal, it's full of people we love and moments that matter to us. It makes us feel good. It's got all the greatest hits a post-Facebook social app should have. It's also free. "Facebook...
Hey Path, Just Nuke All The Data
uncrunched.com
The story of the day is definitely about Path (a CrunchFund portfolio company). The company has been copying address book information to their servers without user knowledge. The company was apparently already aware of the issue and was taking steps to address it prior to this post coming out. The...
Google Drive: Dropbox killer or mediocre also-ran?
www.extremetech.com
It’s one of Silicon Valley’s greatest pink elephants: Why doesn’t Google offer a cloud storage service to rival Dropbox, Box.net, or Microsoft’s SkyDrive? Google has the most internet-connected servers in the world, the largest combined storage of any web company, and already offers photo storage (Picasa), document storage (Docs), music...
Path’s newest update fixes its privacy problem, and includes an apology from the CEO
thenextweb.com
In the wake of yesterday’s privacy concerns over Path uploading the address books of users without their consent, the company’s CEO Dave Morin has today come back with an apologetic blog post and explanation: “Through the feedback we’ve received from all of you, we now understand that the way we...
TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]
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Path uploads your address book to its servers without permission, Flickr shuts down an app that’s trying to poach its users, and Sky News imposes strict rules on tweeting journalists. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The...
Popular ‘Path’ app revealed to secretly upload all iPhone contacts to its servers [updated]
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Path, the popular social network that competes with the likes of Instagram, may be uploading your iPhone’s entire address book up to its servers. Arun Thampi from mclov.in noticed the Path app’s steal data dump while trying to create a Mac OS X application for the social network during a...
Google Drive cloud storage service launching soon, says WSJ
www.theverge.com
Google Drive, a long rumored cloud storage offering from the search giant, is apparently set to be launched soon, according to the Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, that window is still a vague "weeks or months," but it is said to be a free service for basic storage with "large...
Facebook photos: Deleted today, still there tomorrow
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Facebook photos still exist on the company's servers even after deletion and can apparently still be accessed, Ars Technica reports....
Path's privacy problem poses questions for all social apps
www.guardian.co.uk
It's not wrong to store someone's phone contacts on a server. It's wrong to do it without telling them.Social photography startup Path has apologised to its users for uploading and storing their phone contacts on its servers, but the controversy looks set to spread far beyond that one company, as...
LinkedIn updates iOS app following data transmission concerns, but insists: “It’s a great feature.”
thenextweb.com
Earlier today we reported that the LinkedIn iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from your device’s calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text. The information is gathered without explicit permission by a feature that allows users to access their calendar within the app. Well,...
Path 2 uploads your address book, but says it’s to ‘match friends’ and will be opt-in soon
thenextweb.com
Developer Arun Thampi was doing a bit of hacking around with Path 2, trying to get a version of it running on OS X as an experiment, when he discovered that the app actually uploads your entire address book when it is launched. This obviously raised concerns about what the app...
Path iOS app uploads your entire address book to its servers
www.theverge.com
When developer Arun Thampi started looking for a way to port photo and journaling software Path to Mac OS X, he noticed some curious data being sent from the Path iPhone app to the company's servers. Looking closer, he realized that the app was actually collecting his entire address...
Path app under fire for unauthorized address book upload
www.appleinsider.com
Path, a popular social networking iPhone app, has come under heavy criticism after it was discovered that it uploads users' address books to its servers without asking for permission....
Google reportedly prepping free Dropbox competitor
www.bgr.com
Google is preparing to launch a new cloud storage service that will compete directly with popular start up Dropbox and similar services. The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday evening reported that Google is almost ready to announce the new service, which will be called Google Drive. Similar to Dropbox,...
Flash Drives Replace Disks At Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
www.wired.com
Inside a data center in San Jose, California, Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs -- super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn't use SSDs in all its servers, but it's moving in that direction. In other words,...
The Pirate Bay Says Goodbye to (Most) Torrents on February 29
torrentfreak.com
For half a decade The Pirate Bay has been the leading BitTorrent site, but soon its users will no longer be able to download .torrent files. The first step in this direction will be taken on February 29, the Pirate Bay announced today. Instead of deleting all torrent files at...
NTT DoCoMo expands its instant translation trials to 10 languages and 10,000 users
www.engadget.com
NTT DoCoMo's high-speed over-the-phone translation service has hit its second wider trial, aiming to test its skills with 10 languages and 10,000 subscribers -- up from 1,000 during its initial tests in 2011. DoCoMo has thrown in a few more details on how its real-time translator working. The feature...
Spotify (Finally) Shows Up on the iPad
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You wanted a Spotify iPad app? You’ve got a Spotify iPad app. It’s pretty, and it takes advantage of the tablet’s bigger screen to showcase artist artwork and other cool stuff. Just like you’d expect from an iPad app. Demo video is at the bottom of this post. And of...
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