I found this news extremely distressing. From a cybernetic point of view, our phone is an extension of ourselves. It contains all the data we can't quite store in our own minds but being external to our bodies doesn't mean it's any more private than our very own thoughts. For example, we take photographs to remind ourselves of people or places or things, we take notes to augment our own mental notes. These are own private thoughts.

The fact that they are removing a variety of data without specific intent is paramount to mind invasion. The problem is, you aren't doing anything illegal now but who knows how the law will change in the next 20 years. You may WANT to do something legally wrong but not morally wrong and you are only as free as your right to revolt. This is one of those things that helps curtail that freedom.

Luckily there are many tools out there to help us evade such naivety. A tool such as Autowipe http://goo.gl/7u2GX will allow you to enter your phone password in wrong x times or else enter a specific password when they attempt to make you unlock your phone, this will cause the phone to completely wipe itself. As I haven't tried it myself I can't say how obvious the wipe is but either way your data will be safe from prying eyes.

Ultimately, the police are a collection of human beings and it is very difficult to stop that level of data theft being abused. For example, people ogling at naked pictures of girlfriends etc.. (not that I would be stupid enough to have something like that on my phone! but I am sure there are plenty of you out there).

The article makes it sound like this has been going on for years but it was only a year ago it began giving me a ridiculous amount of trouble. I couldn't even research a problem with my boiler. I can only assume it had been added because of some adult film in which a dude comes to fix some woman's boiler...

In any case I had to call Orange to get it turned off. It wasn't a particularly difficult process and the whole filtering process can be rendered completely useless by any child that can download a free app on their android.

To connect to Tor on Android just download Orbot http://goo.gl/m23q0
And to browse without silly filters just use Orweb http://goo.gl/e5d4x

Simplez.

The Kindle edition of this book is free until the end of this month essentially. Whilst I haven't yet read it, I have sent it to my kindle for future consumption and it seems prudent for you to do the same!

First, we want say thanks to all users where download and test Anonymous-OS and all you people for your thousands positive feedback. We tried to answer all your questions and we hope to do it. For your protection, we deleted all emails and not available anywhere. Also we apologize from the creators of  themes and wallpapers that was included on Anonymous-OS, because we don’t thank them earlier and of course without they knowing that we choose their creations. So, we thanks them.

We disappointed for all these we continue to read on various websites that the Anonymous-OS is fake and full of viruses, trojan, etc. Until now we think that nothing reported yet. That say something. All these sites misinform the world, and continue to do this without having checked the Anonymous-OS.
Anyway, from time to publish this project was attacked by several well known sites in the technology field and we believe the reason is to fight one more time Linux and opensource software. Before we starting Anonymous-OS we said that if we feel that our efforts cause a bad thing for Linux and opensource software, then we will stop this effort. For now, is not available link to download Anonymous-OS.
Please don’t try to download it from any host site or torrent without trusting the user to upload the Anonymous-OS. If you not sure, is better to use another Linux distro. There are many distros where you can use all of these tools including Anonymous-OS.

Maybe we come back in the future and continue Anonymous-OS or something like that.

P.S.
Sorry, we forgot say for one more time that of course there is not trojans, malware,etc on Anonymous-OS.

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We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.

Expect Us!

:-( quite a sad note. I think Backtrack Linux is an excellent alternative tool anyway.
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

This is great news. The most exciting thing about this is the offline mode. Google Translate is essentially rendered useless whilst abroad unless you are connected to a wifi connection somewhere as the roaming data costs are astronomical.

Heard about this on one of the Ubuntu Podcast. Sounds like a really interesting project to create colours on the screen accurately. Well worth a look into.

A must have app for any C# geek! And free to boot. Excellent.

Very exciting! I have no idea how this would be regulated as millions of flying cars would certainly be dangerous but for now I'll just enjoy the beauty of this!

I really like these design principles from Dieter Rams. If every followed them, the world would be a beautiful place!

OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE. WITH FIRE!

Another freaky robot from Boston Dynamics!