Tell us you’re not doing that, Palm? Indeed, we have been friends for over ten years. I defended you when you were a bad idea, and praised you when you have good ideas. But this time even I have to give a well-earned “What …?” I want to say that you should know that modern technical users value their privacy, for almost nothing, and yet it looks like you do it?

It seems that every day you send a message from the President of the people without their knowledge. Why? And why would you include it, which applications are installed and, most frightening of all, their co-ordinates GPS? Why would you want to know exactly where your customers on a daily basis?

You made a great product with a pre-, Palm. Please disable this function. This is the spot for the company that is known by the experience of users. If you can not disable it, you could at least change the privacy policy, that if you are a user pre you spied on? Of course, it is said that you will gather information to users when they use location-based app - as, for example, Google Maps, - but he has not told you this when you feel like it. I hurt.

Honesty is best policy, and honesty should be in politics.

UPDATE: Palm has sent me the following statement:

Palm takes privacy very seriously, and offers ways to turn data services on and off. Our Privacy Policy, as well as many politicians in the industry and includes a very detailed language about the possible scenarios in which we might use customer information, all to the purpose of offering a great user experience. For example, if location services are used, we collect information to give them the relevant local results in Google Maps. We appreciate the confidence of users who give us their information, and do not intend to violate that trust.
Well, that is, of course, that shoots up.

Apple on Wednesday issued a security update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities including several that put computers running Mac OS X at risk of remote code execution if a maliciously crafted image is viewed.

In addition to fixing a problem with how PNG images are handled, Security Update 2009-003 fixes issues related to ImageIO’s handling of OpenEXR images, EXIF metadata, as well as Canon RAW images and images with an embedded ColorSync profile.

The update, which arrives as part of the release of Mac OS X v10.5.8, extends the list of content types the Mac OS X will flag as potentially unsafe when downloaded from the Web. It also fixes a problem with how XML content is handled and resolves the way the kernel handles AppleTalk response packets.

Apple on Wednesday released a security update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities, including several that put computers running Mac OS X at risk of remote code execution if maliciously created image is seen.

In addition to fixing problems with PNG images are processed, the security update 2009-003 fixes the problems related to image processing in ImageIO OpenEXR, metadata EXIF, as well as Canon RAW images and images with an embedded profile ColorSync.

Update, which comes in the release of Mac OS X v10.5.8, expands the list of types of contents in Mac OS X will flag potentially unsafe when downloaded from the Internet. It also eliminates the problem with the way XML is the content and decide how the kernel handles AppleTalk reply packets.

Apple also identified and fixed the problems with MobileMe. Signature of MobileMe does not remove all of the powers and people who have access to the local user account can continue to access the associated systems.

So on Friday, Apple released an update for the iPhone OS (3.0.1), which takes care of the SMS vulnerability. This is a pretty important patch, and usually when Apple updates the iPhone OS, jailbreakers have to wait until the Dev Team released a new version of jailbreaking software before they can upgrade.

But according to the iPhone Dev Team to twitter, this is not the case with the 3.0.1 firmware. In fact, the current version redsn0w and ultrasn0w work the same with the 3.0.1 firmware, as with 3.0 firmware that came out a few weeks ago. In short, jailbreaking software already works. I checked with the Dev Team community, and this confirmation. Restore to 3.0.1, run redsn0w, select the file to increase 3.0 … Bang. ”

So, iPhone hackers and security devices in the near future. You do not have to worry about the loss of Cydia and other rogue Apps.

Apple on Friday found SMS, safety-related defect in the iPhone, which was at the heart of one of the most discussed of the exploits in this week’s Black Hat Security Conference.

“We are grateful for the information provided to us on SMS vulnerabilities that affect multiple mobile phone platforms,” Apple representative Tom Neumayr told CNET.

“Today, less than 24 hours after the demonstration of the exploit”, Neumayr continued, “we published a free software update that addresses a vulnerability in the iPhone. Contrary to what was reported, no one was able to take control of iPhone access to personal information using this attack. ”

Security flaw involved malicious messages, which can allow hackers to take control of an iPhone. In the flaw could allow them to make calls, send text messages, or almost everything that they want from the victim iPhone.

Security researchers Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller showed flaws in the work at the Black Hat earlier this week. Miller said that the shortage may take iPhone out of the way the device is processed in the SMS message. Researchers at Black Hat is also shown as a SMS, the vulnerabilities can affect the Windows Mobile smart phones, including HTC, Motorola and Samsung.

Miller said that Apple was first notified of the defect six weeks ago.

According to Apple, to update iPhone 3.0.1, released today, improves memory processing, mainly fixing exploit.

Update, you can connect your iPhone to your computer and click on Check for updates button in iTunes.