Computerese

thedailywhat:

The conceptual iPad app “Pig Chase” lets you play a real-time game with a pen full of pigs.

According to the game’s designers, developing new forms of “human-pig interaction” can “create the opportunity for consumers and pigs to forge new relations as well as to experience the cognitive capabilities of each other.” 

I don’t know what any of that means, but it sounds delicious.

[eater.]

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mudwerks:

(via Watch the Creepy Software That May Be Spying On Your Phone | Gawker)

…Security researcher Trevor Eckhart has recently been shining light on something called Carrier IQ, a sort of “rootkit” that is embedded in a staggering array of phones, monitoring events like button presses, screen taps, text message traffic, GPS location lookups, and web traffic. Now Eckhart has taken the crucial step of putting the creepy spy software to video. His 17-minute upload captures a disturbing flow of data from his stock HTC Evo Android phone, even when he’s entire logged off the cell network. Watching text messages and Google searches surreptitiously retransmitted puts to lie Carrier IQ Inc.’s claim that its software is only meant “to understand… where phone calls are dropped, where signal quality is poor, why applications crash and battery life.”

Some of the more interesting bits start at 13:50 in the video, above, as well as at 11:30 and 9:05. Maybe now that this widespread phone tapping is no longer confined to invisible network traffic, customers will stop tolerating it…