Tag: VERIFICATION

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 ...

If you've ever had your Facebook account taken over and used to spam your friends, or if you've ever been on the receiving end of that spam, you might be happy to hear that Facebook is actually doing something about it. In a blog post on Friday, the social network announced the rollout out of new verification procedures for logging into an account that appears to be compromised. When Facebook ...

Torrent downloads can be kind of a crap shoot. If you'd like a little reassurance about what you're about to download, take a look at Vertor. The service launched recently and provides automated checking of torrents from a number of trackers, like Pirate Bay, Demonoid, and several others. To date, the service has verified more than 140,000 torrents. 20 second MP3 clips are provided to let you ...