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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • It happened also before

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/fda-details-slew-of-failures-at-plant-that-made-eye-drops-linked-to-deaths/

    The facility, it seemed, was primed to produce contaminated products. FDA inspectors noted that Global Pharma didn’t verify that components of the solutions, bought from suppliers, were sterile to begin with. And the areas of the facility where the solution was supposed to be made aseptically—contamination-free—weren’t fit for producing sterile products. That is, the walls, ceilings, and floors were not smooth, hard surfaces that could be readily sterilized as they should be. Instead, there were cracks, protruding nails, and holes in the wall. But, even if the area was cleanable, the company’s protocols for cleaning were also deficient, the report noted.

    FDA inspectors noted problems with cleaning and maintenance of machinery, which could have led to cross-contamination from other products manufactured in the facility. On the second inspection day, an inspector also noted a “black, brown colored greasy deposit” on parts of the filling machine, and the facility’s equipment logbook noted that it hadn’t been cleaned in nearly a month. A few days later, a manager told the inspector that there was “no procedure for cleaning” the filling machine.

    Main reason: in order to make more money they outsourced production from the united states to the cheapest facility that they could find in India

    In this way they saved $0.15 per bottle, who cares if hundreds of people lose vision






  • They don’t care about email scraping (which would be illegal)

    They simply want people to install the app because it exfiltrates a lot of tasty data to them.

    An email might “only” contain ab invisible image to track views and unique links for tracking clicks, while if the user opens the app they way more data.

    From the APK I see they can get stuff like

    • All the contacts of the user, all email addresses and phone numbers
    • GPS location
    • Camera and photos
    • Microphone
    • Your phone number, your device IMEI and your unique advertising id, for cross tracking you better around other sites
    • Send push notifications for FOMO promotions like “OMG it’s the last one buy now before it gets sold out!!!”