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By DrApop on 8/10/2010 1:23:16 PM , Rating: 2
Why should a wallpaper app need to collect anything about anyone less send that information out to someone else?

Why should a media player need to collect any information from the users phone and send it out?

Why should any app anywhere need to collect anything about anyone other than what it needs to run?

RE: wallpaper
By wallijonn on 8/10/2010 2:44:26 PM , Rating: 2

You're kidding, right?

Since it's a media player it first wants to know if all your files are legit. If not then the RIAA and DCMA are informed - which will cause the lawyers to forth at the mouth, the FBI SWAT team is put on standby, the helicopters start circling your house... If they are legit then the licenses must be backed up. Since it uses DRM it'll want to send back all your hardware versions and serial numbers, all your software license numbers, how many times you've downloaded, loaded into memory, played and uploaded every single song your listen to. Etc. Can't have you accessing those servers which carry "questionable" material, after all - all the cracker sites that have uploaded movies, etc.


Gotta make sure you're not a terrorist?, not a drug smuggler?, not a drug dealer, not a coyote?, paying your child support?, not a wife abuser?, not a bank robber?, not doing insider trading?, not selling corporate secrets?, not cheating on the husband?, not a pedophile?, ...

To the right people, all information, all data is worth money. Otherwise, why have browsers with Super Cookies, with cookies that never expire, history, cache, temp files that aren't automatically deleted when the app closes? When you're on the Internet everyone wants to know where everyone is going and what they're doing. They call it "Marketing"... The crooks, on the other hand just want your money - any way they can get it. And if it means installing an app that says that you're infected with a virus and you must send $29.99 to some place on the other side of the planet, well...

Think about it - if your phone plan has unlimited time on it - wouldn't that information be worth a lot to crooks? If somehow they can get your SIM code, your password...

