[AgowlSown]

I used to have a software known as Digsby which basically was a multiprotocol IM client which lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts like gtalk, yahoo messenger, hotmail, aol etc in one easy to use app (digsby), then I uninstalled it later on 'coz it started slow and also 'coz it used a lot of RAM.

Only today did I know why that happened. And I feel cheated. So angry.

Read this Lifehacker article to know why.
http://lifehacker.com/5336382/digsby...-to-make-money

^Link has completely safe viewing, no haraam stuff, or else I would have copy-pasted the article right here.

Though its a 2 year old article, it still is a great reminder.
Will have to review every 3rd party app thats now installed in my pc.



Yours truly did once suggest that app once on SF

[Muramoursuard]

I used to have a software known as Digsby which basically was a multiprotocol IM client which lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts like gtalk, yahoo messenger, hotmail, aol etc in one easy to use app (digsby), then I uninstalled it later on 'coz it started slow and also 'coz it used a lot of RAM.

Only today did I know why that happened. And I feel cheated. So angry.

Read this Lifehacker article to know why.
http://lifehacker.com/5336382/digsby...-to-make-money

^Link has completely safe viewing, no haraam stuff, or else I would have copy-pasted the article right here.

Though its a 2 year old article, it still is a great reminder.
Will have to review every 3rd party app thats now installed in my pc.



Yours truly did once suggest that app once on SF

This laptop everything is on the cloud although has windows 7. The only other app is a download manager and KMPlayer. but jazakAllah for the heads up

[gluckmeea]

I used to have a software known as Digsby which basically was a multiprotocol IM client which lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts like gtalk, yahoo messenger, hotmail, aol etc in one easy to use app (digsby), then I uninstalled it later on 'coz it started slow and also 'coz it used a lot of RAM.

Only today did I know why that happened. And I feel cheated. So angry.

Read this Lifehacker article to know why.
http://lifehacker.com/5336382/digsby...-to-make-money

^Link has completely safe viewing, no haraam stuff, or else I would have copy-pasted the article right here.

Though its a 2 year old article, it still is a great reminder.
Will have to review every 3rd party app thats now installed in my pc.



Yours truly did once suggest that app once on SF

Nowadays your laptop can be manipulated in a much-more subtle way !! Check this.

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German Security Agencies Caught Planting Spyware on Private Computers

http://www.infowars.com/german-secur...ate-computers/

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Revelations by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) that German secret state agencies are installing spyware on personal computers capable of transforming a PC’s webcam and microphone into a listening device, sparked outrage across the political spectrum.

It has since emerged that despite legal requirements that police do so only with a warrant and only if surveillance intercepts are used to prevent threats to “life, limb or liberty,” authorities are not complying with strict limits laid down by Germany’s Supreme Court.

And while these disclosures may have ignited a political firestorm in Berlin, they will come as no surprise to readers of Antifascist Calling.

Three years ago, I reported that Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND, was caught up in a major scandal after the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks, published documents which revealed that the agency had extensively spied on, and even recruited, journalists for use in illicit intelligence operations.

Recalling the CIA’s long-running Operation Mockingbird program that enrolled journalists as spies in what are now euphemistically called “influence operations,” the covert manipulation of the domestic and foreign press according to WikiLeaks, showed “the extent to which the collaboration of journalists with intelligence agencies has become common and to what dimensions consent is manufactured in the interests of those involved.”

[smokeberly]

sheikhs,

I would like to promote Linux or OpenBSD.

[AgowlSown]

This laptop everything is on the cloud although has windows 7. The only other app is a download manager and KMPlayer. but jazakAllah for the heads up

Digsby since that Lifehacker article have cleaned up their act.

1. http://lifehacker.com/5361938/digsby...ndled-crapware

2. http://downloadsquad.switched.com/20...aking-tactics/

Whats more? I'm using it again...that alone is enough for all of you guys to use Digsby now

Nowadays your laptop can be manipulated in a much-more subtle way !! Check this.

#############
German Security Agencies Caught Planting Spyware on Private Computers

http://www.infowars.com/german-secur...ate-computers/

#############

Revelations by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) that German secret state agencies are installing spyware on personal computers capable of transforming a PC’s webcam and microphone into a listening device, sparked outrage across the political spectrum.

It has since emerged that despite legal requirements that police do so only with a warrant and only if surveillance intercepts are used to prevent threats to “life, limb or liberty,” authorities are not complying with strict limits laid down by Germany’s Supreme Court.

And while these disclosures may have ignited a political firestorm in Berlin, they will come as no surprise to readers of Antifascist Calling.

Three years ago, I reported that Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND, was caught up in a major scandal after the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks, published documents which revealed that the agency had extensively spied on, and even recruited, journalists for use in illicit intelligence operations.

Recalling the CIA’s long-running Operation Mockingbird program that enrolled journalists as spies in what are now euphemistically called “influence operations,” the covert manipulation of the domestic and foreign press according to WikiLeaks, showed “the extent to which the collaboration of journalists with intelligence agencies has become common and to what dimensions consent is manufactured in the interests of those involved.”

JazakAllah bro Pawlak.

sheikhs,

I would like to promote Linux or OpenBSD.

I don't agree, this isn't about a virus but a shady app from the developers side, they can very well do it again if they want to for a Linux.
Other then that, there is the 'small' problem of relearning everything to run it like a proper pc, just my opinion. Win7 rocks!

[CuittisIL]

The real question is, why do people still use yahoo, hotmail and aol IM clients when GTalk is so much better and better integrated with Google's free services which are superior to any free services offered by the competition?

[AgowlSown]

The real question is, why do people still use yahoo, hotmail and aol IM clients when GTalk is so much better and better integrated with Google's free services which are superior to any free services offered by the competition?

there are still some people out there who still yahoo & hotmail...anyways watch out for my next post.

[AgowlSown]

God help facebook users.

1. Zuckerberg blogs: 'We've made a bunch of mistakes'

San Fransisco: Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.

The unflattering portrait of Facebook's privacy practices emerged Tuesday in a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that Facebook exposed details about users' lives without getting legally required consent. In some cases, the FTC charged, Facebook allowed potentially sensitive details to be passed along to advertisers and software developers prowling for customers.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/zu...e-otherstories

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?po...50378701937131

even a telegraph article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...cy-u-turn.html

[AgowlSown]

All you Android users out here, watch out.

BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps.

An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11...ne_spying_app/

[lidersontop]

All you Android users out here, watch out.

BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps.

An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11...ne_spying_app/

not just that.if you are using iphone they even recorded your videos and secretly sent them to the 'agencies".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdCB...&feature=share