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by allwein 16y ago
Where did this title come from? It's mentioned nowhere in the article and is, in fact, inaccurate.
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by allwein 16y ago
But the data is not that important, relatively. The assumption is that some "Bad Guy" has gotten a hold of your phone. Here's a list of other vectors that this person could use to identify you, your residence, etc. 1) Your cell number is
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by allwein 16y ago
> Seems like another very important difference is that the Android cache only keeps track of your last timestamp at a given tower. This is true of the iPhone cache as well. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467895
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by allwein 16y ago
You need to have both enabled in order for any logging to occur. Let's explore the 4 scenarios: Cell Off, GPS Off: Nothing to log. Cell On, GPS Off: Phone knows what towers it can see, but can't set the location. Cell Off, GPS On: Phone kno
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by allwein 16y ago
The iPhone is not storing travel history information. It's only storing a "last seen" timestamp for each cell tower. And again, the most accurate they'd be able to get was "this guy was within 500 meters of these dozens of cell towers at
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by allwein 16y ago
>Every iOS device has the potential to reveal someone made a trip to a police station, or spent a lot of time in a suburb that doesn't match with a particular story. Sure, it has the potential. But only if the idiot was dumb enough to
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by allwein 16y ago
One would hope that a technically savvy mob would just disable location services on their iPhones in the Settings app and not track this information to begin with.
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by allwein 16y ago
>If someone "owns" the user's phone then they can get their movement history. Again, it only stores that most recent time that you've seen a specific cell tower, it doesn't store your entire movement history.
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by allwein 16y ago
The iPhone only maintains the last time a given cell tower was "seen". It does not have your complete movement data for the entire year. (Exception would be someone that has been traveling the entire year and has never been back to the sam
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by allwein 16y ago
First off, information is only logged when using Location Based Services. So if you never load up Foursquare or Google Maps, you have nothing to fear. Also, you can totally disable LBS in your settings. Secondly, it's only maintaining a s
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by allwein 16y ago
Because for a given timestamp, the iphone logs dozens of cell towers. So while you might be able to tell I was in Pittsburgh on Monday, you won't be able to figure out what address I was at.
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by allwein 16y ago
The device location is not logged in this database at all. What it does is log the locations of all cell towers that it can communicate with at a point in time. So for a given timestamp, there will be dozens of points logged. So while the
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by allwein 16y ago
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/who-killed-sony-s... Although it looks like a lot of the documentation is still there: http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/develop/platform/
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by allwein 16y ago
I just ran the additional test I noted above. I went into Google Maps and had it locate my position. Then I did a new backup to look at the data again. I had 9 additional records, all Timestamped identically, from while I was using Google
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by allwein 16y ago
So after doing a quick analysis of the data on my iPhone, I've come to the conclusion that this isn't a huge issue at all. First, I'll start with the WiFi data (WifiLocation table): Among the information captured is MAC, Timestamp, and Lat/
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by allwein 16y ago
> the days where you can sue, and win, over someone ripping off your "look and feel" are over, aren't they? Most definitely not. As proof of that, take a look at all the knock-off luxury purses that are continuously being confiscated b
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by allwein 16y ago
Unless your simple techniques and general rules include disabling cookies, disabling javascript, disabling images, changing your IP between requests, changing your MAC between requests, and changing your User Agent between requests, you're
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by allwein 16y ago
The article's title is clearly linkbait. The gist of the article is that mobile safari is open to Evercookies. I wouldn't call the directly "sucking" at privacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie There are ways of tracking users e
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by allwein 16y ago
No, you read it correctly. This article and analysis is extremely flawed. My biggest complaint is that he ignores both taxes and benefits, which ties right into your concept of the "price of life". Sure, the middle class in Sweden might
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by allwein 16y ago
Article from Wired: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/toshibas-portable-usb... Amazon Affiliate Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SP0S28/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
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by allwein 16y ago
I think that part of his point was that in this case, intelligent people tried to design unstable bikes, and failed. Even their unstable bikes were stable. He's doing the obvious equating of Intelligent Designer and God. And since "G
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by allwein 16y ago
I epoxied a keyring onto my Square device so that I can keep it on a keychain. Having anticipated the spinning thing, I have the keyring hanging off the same side as the headphone jack. That way, when I have it hooked up to my iPhone, it
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by allwein 16y ago
I use Square for the same things. I usually just eat the fee. The rate is so low (2.75%), that the fee doesn't even hit $1 until you're charging over $36. And if we're spending that much, I'm not gonna quibble over what's essentially cha
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by allwein 16y ago
Because the convenience is worth the minimal fee? If I'm already paying $30 for dinner, the extra 82 cents doesn't really bother me.
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by allwein 16y ago
What I did was epoxied the Square reader onto a keyring. That way I don't need to think about remembering it.
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by allwein 16y ago
Count me in as one of the people using Square as a consumer device. Ever been out to dinner with friends and when you go to split up the check, everyone wants to trump because they don't have cash and only have a credit card? Boom. Now I'
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by allwein 16y ago
What do you plan on using as your standard rate for other contracts? My suggestion would be to use that rate with a 5 or 10 dollar discount due to your relationship.
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by allwein 16y ago
The consensus points I'm reading are: I miss knowing whether a comment will be good and worthwhile to read or not. I miss the points because I use them to search/filter/etc. I'm being more thoughtful in reading comments because I don't
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by allwein 16y ago
I'd need to read the Amazon agreement much more closely, but what's to stop developers from gaming this by taking all their apps released on Amazon's app store and making them special "Amazon Editions"? Then the argument is there that the m
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by allwein 16y ago
But as always, correlation != causation. In his books, Gary Taubes makes an argument that the causal relationship is reversed. It's not that eating too much causes your body to store the excess as fat. Rather it's that your body is storin

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