Play a lot of games on your Android phone? You’re probably in it to win it and that means getting onto the scoreboards. You’re probably familiar with signing into Play Games every time you open up a game. Well, since Google’s been reforming its permissions processing on Android Marshmallow and the
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Last week the Internet exploded with people complaining about the security permissions required by the latest update to the Facebook Messenger app for Android. Now that some of the initial knee-jerk reaction has passed, is there anything you need to be worried about? And if so, how worried should you be?Let’s dig into some background before we dive into that. Facebook is huge. It’s been just more than a decade since being founded, employs more than 7,000 people, and has over 1.28 billion active users. Add to the fact that we recently learned that Facebook has been ...
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Take a look at that computer in your pocket. Yes, I’m talking about your smartphone – or your tablet. They really are full-featured computers, complete with an always-on, high-speed Internet connection. But today’s portables go further than yesterday’s computers ever did.These days smartphones and tablets know where you are, what direction you’re heading, how fast you’re going, what the barometric pressure is, how many steps you’ve taken, and more. Some know when you’re looking at the screen, others can capture your fingerprints. They can ...
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Desktop and laptop computers are a huge mess of lax security. A program that you install on one of these devices is allowed by its operating systems to have virtually unlimited access to everything. Our mobile operating systems are a little more refined and most tell you, the end user, what access an application is requesting before you install it. Unfortunately, most of us don’t read those pesky permissions prompts and just say “yes” to everything. We are, however, given the chance to say “no”. Until somewhat recently that was our only option: either we ...
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