Flashmag Digizine Edition Issue 75 November 2017 | Page 40

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WhatsApp now leaves you 7 minutes to clear a message

Until now, it was possible to delete a message, but only on the server side and therefore on your smartphone. Recipients kept the message and could always read it or listen to it. From now on, WhatsApp will erase the message on the client side and therefore on the recipient's phone. Instead of the message, they will read a notification that the message has been deleted.

Qualified as "superstars" of social networks (especially among anglophones), King Bach, Amanda Cerny and DeStorm Power total 70 million followers on different platforms. Today, they are preparing the launch of their own streaming channel. Named Zeus, this one will present content from this trio of celebrities. But they will also invite other influential creators to join them by offering their content. For its founders, Zeus is a logical continuation.

In the UK, a somewhat embarrassing story about Avon and Somerset Police, (South West England) circulates in the media. According to several articles, including one from the BBC, the Twitter account "ASPolice Op Support" (operational support of the Avon and Sumerset police) has retweeted an illegal broadcast on Periscope of a well-attended boxing match between Anthony Joshua and Carlos Takam, late october.

And that's not all since in addition to having shared a boxing match hacked, this account would also have shared porn since the person who made the live streaming has decided to broadcast pornographic videos between rounds.

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The camera of the iPhone can spy and publish photos without the knowledge of its owner

A developer from Google has published on Github an application claiming to provide the demonstration that the photo sensors of the iPhone can take pictures at any time without the knowledge of its owner. Felix Krauss, founder of Fastlane, a set of development tools that Google acquired earlier this year, explains in a post that when you give an app permission to use the camera from the iPhone, you give to this application permission to use the camera whenever its developer wishes