Thread: PR1.2 automatically sends SMS, registers phone with My Nokia. Privacy breach?
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arne.anka is offline arne.anka
2010-05-27 , 20:51
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#46
Originally Posted by cazzajay View Post
Yes, I was referring to the title of the thread "Privacy breach" which is technically incorrect.
it isn't.
nokia makes _your_ phone send _private_ information (yes, your phone number _is_ private information) without your consent and on top of that makes you pay for it.

it's not only a breach of privacy, but at least in germany, and probably the rest of the eu as well, illegal.

and due to the usual incompentent package creation, you can't even simply uninstall that crap!

btw: according to
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/34cherry
that thing tries it sneaky stuff only, when there's no file
/home/user/.cherry_state

thus, one could either create that file

touch /home/user/.cherry_state

or disable/remove the script
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/34cherry
Last edited by arne.anka; 2010-05-27 at 20:55.
 

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