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Without a source to corroborate, the tinfoil hat factor is extremely high with this one
by pubg 9y ago
Without a source to corroborate, the tinfoil hat factor is extremely high with this one
- drawnwren 9y agoI slightly agree. However, these days it seems more and more that "thing elite spy agency does to track terrorist" is on about a 6 months to 1 year lead on "thing startup does to target ads."
- jamiek88 9y agoWouldn’t even surprise me if it was the other way around either. Some of the brightest minds of this generation are working on ad tech. Sadly.
- im3w1l 9y agoAbility and motive... Are they able to do this? Yes, for sure. Are they willing to this? For terrorists or maffia bosses, no doubt. For smaller fish? Maybe they can't be bothered. Or maybe they can.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoOnce it's productized, it's probably easy to reuse.
- im3w1l 9y agoTechnically, but maybe not bureaucratically.
- baldfat 9y agoSorry here is the source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ultrasound-tracking-could-be-used-to-deanonymize-tor-users/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ultrasound-tr... It appears to have happened already
- jm547ster 9y agoWow, now 44.1kHz sound cards should be very desirable
- sloppycee 9y ago> A team of researchers from the Brunswick Technical University in Germany discovered [234] Android apps that employ ultrasonic tracking beacons to track users and their nearby environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilverPush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilverPush My tinfoil hat is spinning!