Post subject: Have a flashlight on your cell phone?
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:31 pm
Gemology Online Royal Princess
Joined: Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:56 am Posts: 6461 Location: The frozen north prairie :-/
Something for those of you with "smarter-than-me" phones to be on the watch for:
IF YOU HAVE INSTALLED ANY FLASHLIGHT APP ON YOUR CELL PHONE, BE SURE YOU WATCH THIS VIDEO. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE. THIS IS NEWS THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW. IT IS SCARY.
Post subject: Re: Have a flashlight on your cell phone?
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:13 am
Moderator: Lapidary Arts and Tools
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:41 pm Posts: 5534 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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And so far we've seen no reports documenting that any flashlight app is secretly funneling personal data to cybercriminals in foreign countries.
Of course you won't. The people who write malware are not stupid. The missed point here is if it's out anywhere, it's out everywhere. Years ago there was an issue with digital picture frames. The user would plug them into the USB port to load the pictures, and the computer was then infected. At present, botnets account for more web traffic than individual users. These are then used in Distributed Denial Of Service attacks, and other hacks. Locally a police station had to pay ransom in Bitcoin to have their documents unlocked. It's just going to keep getting worse.
Post subject: Re: Have a flashlight on your cell phone?
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:32 am
Gemology Online Veteran
Joined: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:23 am Posts: 923 Location: NYC
in android it shows what access the program is getting while installing, and i always check, beside that many free apps in Play Store has ads which is kind of malware, most of the time those ads request for network and other data
good thing is my Note3 has built in Flash Light App
Post subject: Re: Have a flashlight on your cell phone?
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:25 am
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Barbara O. Ellis, GG wrote:
Something for those of you with "smarter-than-me" phones to be on the watch for:
IF YOU HAVE INSTALLED ANY FLASHLIGHT APP ON YOUR CELL PHONE, BE SURE YOU WATCH THIS VIDEO. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE. THIS IS NEWS THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW. IT IS SCARY.
Post subject: Re: Have a flashlight on your cell phone?
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:27 am
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Joined: Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:57 pm Posts: 66
It must have been about 11 years ago that I knew aliens from galazies far beyond were watching my every move from my cell phone, and taped the camera for good.
Only problem is satellite t.v. They can watch you through all kinds of reverse signal stuff, using your tv pixels as a camera.......................
So, if your only problem is a few global criminals stealing your identity, draining your lives savings, and committing crimes under your name making you a wanted fugitive in 3-4 countries.............
Consider your problems minimal.
Just kidding.
About the minimal problems part. Those are very serious problems.
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