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This reminds me of the comment from the NSA a while ago in which it said that Snowden's documents have already changed many people's behaviour. I'm on a reliabl
by Spearchucker 13y ago
This reminds me of the comment from the NSA a while ago in which it said that Snowden's documents have already changed many people's behaviour. I'm on a reliable 4G network in London and (mostly) only go to places I'm familiar with. The result being that location service, WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC are permanently turned off. My girlfriend has had location services turned off since she first got an iPhone 3GS. And she won't let me use my Kinect when she's home.
Justified or not, these things are coming up in conversation at work and with friends a lot lately, which I find encouraging.
- hnriot 13y agoWhy? The 4g network is tracking you via cell town triangulation the whole time anyway. Might as well use the phones wifi when you can save some bandwidth on the slower cellular network.
- Spearchucker 13y agoBecause GSM, GPS and WiFi combined are, bar GPS, more accurate and pervasive together than any one in isolation. Also because when location services are off, photos don't get tagged with my location coordinates, and apps can't use my location either.
- jodrellblank 13y agoLocation services are configurable per-app in iOS 6, so you can have Maps allowed to use them and Camera forbidden. (Settings -> Privacy -> Location).
- Spearchucker 13y agoAndroid can do that too, I believe. I have a Windows Phone. Settings aren't that granular.
- wnesensohn 13y agoA Windows Phone App which uses the Location Service is required to have a setting to enable/disable the use of this service[1]. It's probably not as comfortable as the solutions of iOS/Android, but it gets the job done. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh184841%28v=vs.105%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop... - 2.7.3
- sigkill 13y agoMaybe I'm an ass for pointing this out, but it's trilateration, not triangulation. I set out to learn the mathematical concept, and not knowing the right term had me waste an entire evening looking at something more closely related to tessellation, than spatial position locating.
- Spearchucker 13y agoFunny thing is I'm really familiar with the tech - I did COIN in the bush war in Angola, where we did a lot of triangulation (old school, using an oscilloscope). I've given up trying to explain the difference.
- bierik 13y agoYou don't sound like an ass at all. Hell, if I had wasted the better part of an evening due to a simple nomenclature mix-up, I'd post it as well when the right concept comes up. It might save others some time.
- tspike 13y agoWhen the Snowden documents were released, I got into a heated debate with a friend, who argued that he has nothing to hide. He said he couldn't believe anyone was naïve enough to think the government wasn't monitoring everything already, and that we elected them, so we should trust them. He said that privacy concerns sound pretty trivial compared to preventing incidents like the Boston Marathon bombings or apprehending the suspects, and that he'll gladly cooperate to help stop the bad guys. We pretty much ruined lunch for everyone with our arguing, but he has since spent more time looking into the nuances of the topic and has said he has changed his mind. The thought of not being able to trust the government is really depressing to him.
- jseliger 13y agoWhen the Snowden documents were released, I got into a heated debate with a friend, who argued that he has nothing to hide. I heard Bruce Schneider being interviewed, and he said that people frequently challenge him by saying they have nothing to hide. His two-second retort, especially on call-in shows, is simple: "What's your salary?" No one wants to answer in public.
- kleiba 13y agoIronically, if you pay taxes, that's something the government doesn't even have to spy on you for.
- lifeformed 13y agoI can list sooo many things people would want to hide: - Salary - Medical history - Home address - Phone number - DOB - SS number - Bank account numbers - Passwords - Photos of yourself - Photos of your children - Job search history (when you are already employed) - What time you'll be out of the house - Porn search history
- diminoten 13y agoIt's because you can't give that information out without also granting write access to a person's life. If there were a way I could give you my SSN/bank information/etc without also granting you the ability to impersonate me, I'd gladly do it.
- diminoten 13y agoWon't let you use the Kinect? Paranoid.
- mcantelon 13y agoParanoia would imply fear of something unlikely to happen. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/