Bitstrips is a web and mobile application that allows users to create a cartoon of themselves and their friends.Users create animated avatars of themselves by adjusting multiple physical characteristics and accessories of a virtual figurine. They then proceed to position their avatar in one of over 10,000 different scenarios.[1] Bitstrips launched its Facebook application in December 2012, and its iPhone and Android applications in September 2013.[1] Horizon Ventures and Li Ka-shing then invested in the company in November 2013.[2] The application has been downloaded more than 11 million times[3] and had just 10 employees. Bitstrips is based in
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
On 9 November 2013, the Call the Cops web site published an article positing that the popular Bitstrips
cartoon creation app had been revealed by former National Security
Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as a trojan horse that allows the
NSA to secretly access personal user information from Facebook and cell
phone communications:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on
social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your
Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent
disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were
being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered
the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was
just a spoof from Call the Cops, a satirical web site that bills itself as "America's 27th Most Trusted Site for Public Safety News" and notes on its "About Us" page that:
According to a statement from Snowden the NSA knew that someday their spying would be made public. They knew that people would respond by demanding more privacy settings. So in response the NSA set up a team to develop apps that will by pass privacy settings, in a legal way.
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire
Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real
and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact. Heck
we tend to leave in spelling and grammer errors just to prove we is not
the professional media.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/bitstrips.asp#v8bLpFkoAwaimsmh.99
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