Is the Flashlight App a Trojan or a hoax? 
Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 10:16 AM
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1954 C.B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton 
 Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 
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Jessica Rocha, Reedsport, Oregon
Woman says she was playing 'the zombie game' 
when she broke into another woman's home 
and bit her on the face

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon say a woman 
has been arrested after breaking in to a house, pushing a 
woman down the stairs, pulling her hair, biting her on the 
face and telling her victim she was playing "the zombie game."

Coos County sheriff's Sgt. Pat Downing says Jessica Rocha 
broke into the home in coastal city of Lakeside early 
Monday. He says she was drunk and likely high.

Downing says there is no definite explanation for the 
zombie reference. He says Rocha had property with a 
sticker that referenced a video game featuring zombies. 
Deputies also speculate she may have been influenced 
by a scarecrow contest in the area.

She is held on $77,500 bail and faces arraignment Monday 
on multiple charges, including assault. 



Tech Support Pits
From: Lily
Re: Is it true about Flashlight Trojans?

At 01:05 PM 10/13/2014, you wrote:
Dear Webby,
LOVE your newsletter, I've been a subscriber for years
but this is the first time that I've written you.
I wanted to ask if its really true about the flashlight app.
That is really scary.
Thanks,
Lily 

Dear Lily
Yes, it is true.
If your flashlight app is more than 2 KB, 
then you now have a Trojan deep down in the operating 
system, that is mining and transmitting your data. 

The Flashlight apps also track and report your location!
Somebody KNOWS when you enter the bakery isle at Walmart 
or walk past the porn shop!

If you have never used your phone to pay bills or do any 
bank or credit card stuff, then it just finks on all your 
addresses, and probably tells all of them what kind of neat 
flashlight it is. 
And of course it reports your exact location!
Even the FTC got uptight about that last summer.

If you have or plan to use your phone for any banking, 
save your pictures and other data on http://DropBox.com, 
and get your phone provider to reset it to factory standard, 
because the OS is infected.

The alternative is to destroy the silly thing and next 
time refrain from downloading any large app.

An honest flashlight app is only 1 - 2 KB. It is just 
a blank page flashing faster than the eye can see, 
just like the LED traffic lights and vehicle brake lights. 
It does not take a Megabyte for that. If you see the file 
size to be large, then the app has a malicious payload.

Music and movies of course are large, but those are 
usually clean.

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A young couple decided they needed an au pair, and arranged
for a girl to come over from Northern Finland. When she arrived,
the wife asked, "Can you cook?"

"No," said the girl, "My mother always did that."

"Can you do housework?" asked the wife.

"No, my oldest sister always did that."

"Well," said the wife, "You'd better just look after the 
children."

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always did that."

"What can you do, then?" asked the wife, in desperation.

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"I can milk reindeer."



A farmer lived on a quiet rural highway. But, as time went by, the
traffic slowly built up at an alarming rate. The traffic was so heavy
and so fast that his chickens were being run over at a rate of three
to six a day. So one day he called the sheriff's office and said,
"You've got to do something about all of these people driving so
fast and killing all of my chickens."

"What do you want me to do?" asked the sheriff.

"I don't care, just do something about those drivers."

So the next day he had the county go out and put up a sign that said:
SLOW: SCHOOL CROSSING.

Three days later the farmer called the sheriff and said, "You've got
to do something about these drivers. The 'school crossing
sign seems to make them go faster." So, again, the sheriff
sends out the county and they put up a new sign: SLOW:
CHILDREN AT PLAY.

And that really sped them up. So the farmer called and called and
called everyday for three weeks. Finally, he asked the sheriff, "Your
signs are doing no good. Is it all right for me to put up my own
sign?"

The sheriff told him, "Sure thing, put up your own sign."

He was going to let the farmer do just about anything in order to
have him stop calling. Well, the sheriff got no more calls from the
farmer.

Three weeks after the farmers last call, the sheriff decided 
to call him.

"How's the problem with those drivers. Did you put up your sign?"

"Oh, I sure did. And not one chicken has been killed since then.
I've got to go. I'm very busy." And he hung up the phone.

The sheriff thought to himself, "I'd better go to that 
farmer's house and look at that sign. There might be something 
there that WE could use to slow down drivers."

So the sheriff drove out to the farmer's house, and he saw
the sign.

It was a whole sheet of plywood. And written in large yellow letters
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Today in 
1066 The Battle of Hastings occurred in England. The Norman 
 forces of William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II 
 of England. 
1879 Thomas Edison signed an agreement with Jose D. Husbands 
 for the sale of Edison telephones in Chile. 
1887 Thomas Edison and George E. Gouraud reached an agreement 
 for the international marketing rights for the phonograph. 
1912 Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in 
 Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not 
 serious and he continued with his planned speech. William 
 Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting. 
1922 Lieutenant Lester James Maitland set a new airplane 
 speed record when he reached a speed of 216.1 miles-per-hour. 
1926 The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, made its debut. 
1930 Ethel Merman debuted on Broadway in "Girl Crazy." 
1933 Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the 
 League of Nations. 
1943 The Radio Corporation of America finalized the sale of 
 the NBC Blue radio network. Edward J. Noble paid $8 million 
 for the network that was renamed American Broadcasting Company. 
1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide 
 rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring 
 against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow. 
1944 During World War II, the Second British Parachute 
 Brigade liberated the city of Athens. 
1947 Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck 
 Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first 
 American to break the sound barrier. German ME111 broke the
 sound barrier in 1945, but only downwind.
1954 C.B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton 
 Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 
 people. 
1960 U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first 
 suggested the idea of a Peace Corps. 
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. reconnaissance 
 aircrafts photographed Soviet construction of intermediate-
 range missile sites in Cuba. 
1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace 
 Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice 
 in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award. 
1968 The first live telecast to come from a manned U.S. 
 spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7. 
1970 Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt following the 
 death of President Nasser. 
1986 Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev charged that the U.S. 
 wanted to "bleed the Soviet Union economically" with the 
 arms race in space. 
1987 Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned 
 well in Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours. 
2002 Britain stripped power from the Catholic and Protestant 
 politicians of Northern Ireland. Britain resumed sole 
 responsibility for running Northern Ireland. 
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