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An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by Lone-Deranger »

easrng wrote: post #48
w-ll wrote: post #2

This site is just tried to fake a chrome update for me. Serving up malware. Viewing source their wordpress for sure has been hacked. Obfuscated JS at the bottom of every static js file. Must be something random that it targeted me. cant seam to make it trigger again.

It's downloading a zipped JScript file, still trying to figure out what it does. It looks like they took an unmodified copy of a normal JS library and wrapped it in an try/catch block so when it errors from not being in the right environment the "error reporter" kicks in and evals some JS is downloads from 582e.call.pgee.org (which appears to be non-functional)

Hey Easrng, how did you reproduce? Which environment triggers the "error reporter"?

Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by rpdillon »

pyuser583 wrote: post #51
joshmanders wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Apple" and "Meta" are just words, yes, but if a second computer company named "Apple" were to appear, this would pretty clearly infringe on the Apple trademark, as opposed to say Apple T-Shirt Company. Which is exactly why Apple was called Apple Computers, Inc for a long time, because Apple already existed in computer space and Apple Computers was constantly sued by the original Apple until they finally came to an…

I thought the “other Apple” existed in the music space. Which wasn’t a problem, until Itunes.

Yes, this was my recollection as well. I'm thinking of the dispute with the Beatles[0], but there may be another.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by [deleted] »

rococode wrote: post #21
jrockway wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I don't think these holding companies mean much to people inside or outside the company. No random person on the street knows what Alphabet or Meta is, they know Google and Facebook. I certainly don't put "Alphabet" on my resume. I worked there and I don't even know what it meant exactly.

There's a difference, though. Meta is a renaming. There is no "Facebook" company anymore. It's all Meta. Meta has a product named "Facebook", not a company named "Facebook". Alphabet is a holding company. "Google" still exists as a standalone company, it's just owned by Alphabet.

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Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by hulitu »

jonah wrote: post #8

Back in the day I worked at MetaCreations née MetaTools[0]. We had a web browser plugin that rendered streaming, progressive, interactive 3D - well before WebGL et. al. It shipped with IE and was available for other browsers as well. The MetaStream logo[1][2][3] was surprisingly similar to the Meta one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCreations [1] It was surprisingly hard to find a copy of the logo on image se…

Kai's Power Tools has the best resizing algorithm i have ever seen.

Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by Lone-Deranger »

w-ll wrote: post #2

This site is just tried to fake a chrome update for me. Serving up malware. Viewing source their wordpress for sure has been hacked. Obfuscated JS at the bottom of every static js file. Must be something random that it targeted me. cant seam to make it trigger again.

Is anybody able to indicate what the obfuscated JS is exactly on the bottom of each page? Or how to reproduce the error?

Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by ouxiez »

w-ll wrote: post #2

This site is just tried to fake a chrome update for me. Serving up malware. Viewing source their wordpress for sure has been hacked. Obfuscated JS at the bottom of every static js file. Must be something random that it targeted me. cant seam to make it trigger again.

Works fine for me on 20/07

Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by jonah »

hulitu wrote: post #64
jonah wrote: post #8

Back in the day I worked at MetaCreations née MetaTools[0]. We had a web browser plugin that rendered streaming, progressive, interactive 3D - well before WebGL et. al. It shipped with IE and was available for other browsers as well. The MetaStream logo[1][2][3] was surprisingly similar to the Meta one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCreations [1] It was surprisingly hard to find a copy of the logo on image se…

Kai's Power Tools has the best resizing algorithm i have ever seen.

We had some incredible folks creating cutting-edge graphics algorithms, UI frameworks, etc.

It was sad to see the company disintegrate due to mis-management, but the diaspora has gone on to all the top companies and have continued to do strong work elsewhere.

Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by Lone-Deranger »

ouxiez wrote: post #66
w-ll wrote: post #2

This site is just tried to fake a chrome update for me. Serving up malware. Viewing source their wordpress for sure has been hacked. Obfuscated JS at the bottom of every static js file. Must be something random that it targeted me. cant seam to make it trigger again.

Works fine for me on 20/07

Woot, thanks.

Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by wutbrodo »

actuator wrote: post #34
wutbrodo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatsapp is overwhelmingly popular, no? I'd guess much more so than Oculus. And anecdotally, IG users seem to feel very positively about it in a way that isn't true for fb or Twitter users. Most of the handwringing about IG that I've seen comes from commentators

IG is popular among its users and doesn't have the same image as FB has but it also has been in news for reports on body dysmorphia, depression etc You are right about WhatsApp though, it aslo largely has a very positive image till now

Yea, but the IG complaints are more of a moral panic than anything else, and don't come from any of the actual users. Though you're right that that feeds into the overall brand.
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