Tag: PHONE HOME

The Android Market is doing away with its current copy protection scheme for apps, because breaking protection to pirate the apps is a little bit too easy for the comfort of the developers who sell their software in the market. To protect its relationship with the all-important dev community, Google has launched a "licensing service" that verifies whether an app was legitimately purchased. This ...

Oh, the irony. Bob Cringely reported a couple weeks back that PC firewall software ZoneAlarm 6.0 has been caught in the act of sending encrypted data back to four Zone Labs servers, even when communication settings in the program are disabled. Oops. After denying the reports for nearly two months, Zone Labs is now claiming that it's a bug, even though the connection instructions are specifically ...