Will That App Kill Your Phone?

 

 

Apps and widgets for smart phones have proliferated, with over half a million available for the iPhone alone. However, with the apps come danger from criminals  determined to ruin your day and kill your phone.

 

You can protect yourself and your Android™, iPhone® or Windows® Phone. So before you casually download your next app or widget, think about it.

Who Wrote the App or From Where Did it Come?

 
Apps are built by anyone, including a cyber thief with malicious intent.Stop and think before you hit the DOWNLOAD button. Are you downloading app from an official site of the platform your phone uses?  Is the app highly rated and downloaded often?

 

2) Avoid Peer-to-Peer Networks

 

File sharing websites are more prone to distributing malware and Trojan horses. You may think downloaded the app from a p2p site is going to save you money But, if you cannot resist saving a buck by grabbing an app or widget from a p2p network, be very careful. You may just kill your phone.

 

3) Read the fine print.
 

When you download an app, you may be asked to give the developer permission for such activities as preventing the phone from sleeping, allowing the phone to read data on who called from where  or accessing to the phone’s Internet connection.Read the contract. Otherwise, you may find a huge data or text phone bill next month.

4) Protect your devices.

Stay ahead of the bad guys. Research and visit related forums and then  download an antivirus program for your smart phone. Make sure you are on the website of the official app shop. Save your apps, your information, your privacy and your phone.

 

 

5) Escape the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (pictured above).

 

I did not know the blue screen of death has still around. Knock on wood, I have not seen one  since I quite using Win-98. When you see this screen, there is nothing left to do with the phone except throw it, stomp on it, throw on the concrete, put it in a compacter, drop it in the toilet, or turn the service off and give the high-priced toy to your  nephew.

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Losing Rights and Freedoms

Caught Sharing Downloaded Games

Source: The Daily Link

Losing the Freedom of the Internet

The Congress and the House of Representatives have come up two separate bills to further curtail our freedoms. I guess it is just too hard for the poor peeps to tackle something important, like sending jobs overseas, corruption on capitol hill, the environmental dangers posed by fracking and the XL pipeline, climate change, the disappearing middle class, etc.

Oh, but they have time to write the bills that will take away the few  pleasures left to the public that is struggling to work, live and pay taxes.

Congress is about to pass Internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed to it. We need to kill the bills - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech,  privacy, and prosperity.

S.968 - PROTECT IP Act of 2011

PIPA - Establishes process by which a website is taken down because the Justice Department (DoJ) says the site is conducting infringing activities. The DoJ or the copyright owner would begin legal action and the DoJ could demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain name services block access to the targeted site.This could all be done without anyone being heard by a judge.

Stop Protect IP Adresses (PIPA) - Read the bill here.

H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act

SOPA - Basically the same as PIPA, with some additions: ". . . against any site they deem to have 'only limited purpose or use otherthan infringement,' . . . It would also make unauthorized web streaming ofcopyrighted content a felony with a possible penalty up to five years in  prison."  This bill combines two separate Senate bills -- S.968 and S.978.

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - Read the bill here.

Protests Tomorrow

People are saying these bills will break the Internet.  In protest many of the large websites, like Wikipedia are "blacking out" their websites tomorrow 1/18.

Click the infographic below to take action.  

Do it today. 

Dream on Monday for Those Who Can No Longer Dream

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., studied Gandhi's teachings in college and visited India to gain experience with civil disobedience. From Gandhi, he learned that nonviolent resistance was the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.

The principles of passive resistance and civil disobedience is credited with winning civil rights for black Americans. No matter what, no protester ever fought back while the Rev. King was alive. To use violence would have nullified everything in which Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi believed.




There was a horrific scene in Birmingham, Alabama in the spring of 1963, during which black demonstrators were attacked with fire hoses, cattle prods and police dogs.










This protest was televised and shocked many Americans. President John F. Kennedy, Jr. addressed the nation on television about the issue of civil rights. All through 1963, JFK worked to pass a moderate civil rights bill. He died before he could complete the bill.







President Kennedy was assassinated in November of that year. After the assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Act through Congress. Although codifying civil rights in law was a step in the right direction, Rev. King struggled with related issues for four more years until he was assassinated by a sniper on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN.

With Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., gone, the civil rights movement lost ground.  A leader failed to emerge and the movement stalled.