Sunday, August 26
Daily News Stuff 26 August 2018
Tech News
- Fortnite bypassed Google's play store to avoid paying the 30% fee.
Their alternative installer left your phone open to attack. (Bleeping Computer)
They've fixed it now, but expect similar flaws whenever anyone else does this. Of course, with iPhones you can't do this at all - which is not an improvement.
Social Media News
- Is Facebook deleting the pages of alt-med
quacksfraudspractitioners? (FastCompany)
I am of two minds here. If they are simply posting nonsense, that should be allowed. If they are actually engaging in commercial fraud, that should be removed, and they should face criminal charges. But I don't see that as primarily Facebook's job.
On the other other hand, the FDA and FTC haven't been properly monitoring the false claims of these quacks, and they are getting people killed.
Music Video of the Day
Well, music anyway, the video is slightly lacking.
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Once again, Google are dicks by publicly documenting the vulnerability early, too.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, August 26 2018 02:53 PM (ITnFO)
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That (terribly named) "Man-in-the-Disk" attack has been widely discussed recently, and yet the publishers of Fortnite, who make roughly a quintillion dollars a minute, went ahead and deployed a broken installer that compromised the security of their customers' phones.
No-one comes out of this smelling good.
No-one comes out of this smelling good.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 26 2018 04:15 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, August 27 2018 10:23 AM (ITnFO)
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