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It's not just email and phone. It's email and phone and location. This would be very useful info for marketing campaigns. Automated emails to people that go to
by randyrand 6y ago
It's not just email and phone. It's email and phone and location.
This would be very useful info for marketing campaigns. Automated emails to people that go to specific stores, parks, etc.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThe number of people transferring files in public is so limited that it would be much more simple to buy the marketing data for everyone in a given city.
- joshmanders 6y ago> and location. Ok? AirDrop doesn't work miles away from people, so if they got your email and phone already through AirDrop, how is having your location such emphasized? "They can see you, gasp!"
- randyrand 6y agoIt shouldn't be too hard to understand... The more trackers you place, the more location data you have on that person. You could literally put thousands around a city at many different stores, gas stations, parks, etc.
- innagadadavida 6y agoThe article is sparse on how they implemented. Do you need a Mac/iPhone or can this thing run on very cheap hardware that can be deployed at scale? Given they found this almost two years ago, I wonder if there is an actual attack or exploit that has been deployed or is this one of those attacks that don’t leave the lab environment?