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How anonymous can a service be that sends messages through a central server and uses your phone's GPS to know where you are at all times? You're only anonymous
by Johnny555 10y ago
How anonymous can a service be that sends messages through a central server and uses your phone's GPS to know where you are at all times? You're only anonymous to each other, but the server in the middle knows all.
When I saw the headline, I thought this used some sort of ad-hoc Wifi network with MAC spoofing and couldn't figure out how they got 1km of range.
- andrewstuart2 10y agoGPS + Tower location + SRC/DEST IP + MEID, etc. The metadata is the problem for true anonymity, not the amount of information that individual users can see, or that the server stores in its database.