Your Android Phone Is Secretly Recording Everything You Do
If you have any decently modern Android phone, everything you do is being recorded by hidden software lurking inside. It even circumvents web encryption and grabs everything—including your passwords and Google queries.
Worse: it’s the handset manufacturers and the carriers who—in the name of “making your user experience better”—install this software without any way for you to opt-out. This video, recorded by 25-year-old Android developer Trevor Eckhart, shows how it works. This is bad. Really bad.
Fast forward to 9:00 for the damning sequence.
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New Copyright Laws
What You Need To Know About the New Copyfight
You may have heard rumblings and grumblings about a Senate bill that would “effectively destroy” YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Google+, and any other service that lets people post things on the internet.
If a “directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link” is found to distribute content without permission, the PROTECT IP Act (.pdf) would allow copyright owners or the Attorney General to sue for the deletion of that Internet service from the United States internet, by rendering it unsearchable on search engines and impossible to access with United States DNS servers. (Security experts worry that this will cause Americans who still want to access sites like RapidShare to rely on foreign DNS servers, which would open another can of worms.) Continue reading “New Copyright Laws” »
In the news
Before computers were found in nearly every home in America, they were household tools of play and learning for Georgetown resident Frank Glover. He now makes his living fixing them for other people.
“Not to brag, but there’s not much about computers I don’t know,” he said. “I eat, sleep and breathe this. It’s basically been spoon-fed to me.” Continue reading “In the news” »
Contest: Geek Monkey is having a give away!
We are going to give away a 1hr massage to one lucky Geek Monkey Fan! No we do not do the massage ourselves. 
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How to fix the single most annoying thing in OSX Lion: bring back tap-to-drag!
The new gesture controls in Apple’s OSX Lion operating system update can take a little getting used to on a MacBook (such as the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs). The reverse “natural” scrolling, for example is one that has its fans and detractors, and we’ve previously shown you how to roll back that particular change. Continue reading “How to fix the single most annoying thing in OSX Lion: bring back tap-to-drag!” »
