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Google Samsung Fix Android Spying Flaw Other Makers May Still

Dan Goodin writing for Ars Technica An attack wouldn’t be completely surreptitious. The screen of an exploited device would display the camera as it recorded video or shot an image. That would tip off anyone who was looking at the handset at the time the attack was being carried out. Still, the attack would be able to capture video, sound, and images at times when a phone display was out of eyesight, such as when the device was placed screen down. The app was able to use the proximity sensor to determine when the device is face down.
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Lin Manuel Miranda On The Role Of The Artist In The

Jason Kottke writing for kottke.org In a 1969 piece, Kurt Vonnegut asserted that art is an early warning system for society: I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.
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