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Post by bonesmason on Mar 10, 2014 6:15:46 GMT -5
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Post by clueless on Mar 10, 2014 6:53:18 GMT -5
You have to be kidding, I have Angry birds installed in my computer I love the game, this most be a joke right?
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Post by nsainvader on Mar 10, 2014 7:40:53 GMT -5
You have to be kidding, I have Angry birds installed in my computer I love the game, this most be a joke right? No joke. More of a success rate when you target insanely popular items. That's why WoW was targeted as it's the most popualr MMO so there's no surprise that they would target angry birds since it has over a billion downloads and gets about 250 million users a month.. yes a month. Edit: Typical modus operandi of any hack really...You don't expect to catch many fish in a barrel but with a net in the sea Your bound to get Your fill
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Post by ciathug on Mar 10, 2014 9:59:33 GMT -5
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Honestly, what do people expect when they download these "free" apps. I don't condone this behavior, but honestly, nothing in life is free, there's always a catch. I'm sure people have somewhat an idea what's being gathered with these free apps, they just don't want to think to much about it.
I hate that my privacy is being torn apart by but this stuff is just well obvious. Why does angry birds want your GPS location... Duh, Oh well, not the least bit surprised really.
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Post by clueless on Mar 10, 2014 10:15:04 GMT -5
Well I guess I will only play on my computer off line, and will checking for services working in the background when I am not playing the game. Now does the spying include the pay version? I do own my angry birds version.
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Post by ikillosama on Mar 10, 2014 10:28:06 GMT -5
Well I guess I will only play on my computer off line, and will checking for services working in the background when I am not playing the game. Now does the spying include the pay version? I do own my angry birds version. Oh yes it includes all versions... I'm not fear mongering. Sadly they have ways around You being offline as well if they want to spy on you bad enough through RF means
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Post by spion on Mar 10, 2014 10:41:28 GMT -5
You have to be kidding, I have Angry birds installed in my computer I love the game, this most be a joke right? If you read the source article, it seems to me like what's going on is that the company that makes Angry Birds is collecting "personal information" about you (which might be nothing more than your email address or Facebook name for tracking high scores) and the NSA supposedly has figured out how to get at that information. As anyone who listens to Reality Remix knows, I am a firm proponent of personal privacy and I think that the NSA is way over the line, but stories like this are becoming utterly ridiculous. I anticipate that, before too long, the NSA will be declared omniscient, with the powers of God over the world. They know my email address from Angry Birds or what gear my WoW paladin is wearing? Even if that was true, who cares? All of this fear-mongering is in favour of something, though I don't know what -- maybe even in favour of the NSA -- but it is getting out of hand.
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Post by jennyfromtheblock on Mar 10, 2014 11:08:39 GMT -5
Pretty Much... I view these kinds of articles and "leaks"as the NSA posting their high scores in the hacking game. Basically saying "hey look at how many of You we got under our eye and there's not a damn thing anyone can do to stop us."
If You've got nothing to hide really theres no worry but it still doesn't condone what they are doing and pretty much laughing at us
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Post by monalisa on Mar 10, 2014 11:28:15 GMT -5
It isn't even so much of "You've got nothing to hide" as it is "they know I play Angry Birds and they have my email address" -- again, who cares? That information is of absolutely no consequence, and yet it's being trotted out as yet another outrage.
Yes, it could very well be that the NSA is pushing these stories out so that they build up that sense of omniscience, or maybe they learned that high ranking members of terrorist organizations relax by playing Angry Birds and want to drive them out of the game, but I'd rather see journalistic efforts and column inches dedicated to the real outrageous invasions of privacy of our government, like monitoring all US domestic phone traffic, than silliness like this.
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Post by fr33dom on Mar 10, 2014 11:52:54 GMT -5
Does that make angry birds some kind of psychological test ? Computer games and there perils, reminds me of this
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