crankycoder1975

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by crankycoder1975 3y ago
You can't. Skyhook basically owns triangulation of rf. It's absurd.
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by crankycoder1975 6y ago
I used to work at Mozilla until recently and what you're talking about is nonsense. The telemetry data is handled extremely carefully. Any downstream use of that data is also carefully managed so that creating re-identifiable data
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by crankycoder1975 9y ago
Ah, nevermind. I'll just read your emails. #ExGapperJokes
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by crankycoder1975 9y ago
Does Bruce still want you guys to use Zorba for Compass?
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
Monitoring server logs is how we detected and implemented protection from a botnet scouring the database for SSID information.
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
We don't correlate your location data to ads. As a Canadian, that would actually be illegal and a violation of the Privacy Act. We never got authorization from individuals to do that correlation. We aren't perfect, but I think we
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
We're going to put some more information there on why we don't publish wifi at this point. https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 In a nutshell though, we don't know how to do this yet
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
YES. We caught that bug just before release. :) https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/1137
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
geo-fencing was extremely rarely used. I think we had single digit numbers of people who enabled the feature and understood what it meant. We decided to cut out geofencing because it was confusing to most people and reducing the number o
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
Hey, we're happy to hear about privacy concerns and ways that these might be addressed. As for collecting your SSID information - devices are already storing SSIDs to do an active scan. If you're not happy that the Mozilla Stumble
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
I'm going to try getting an F-Droid build out today, but we've got some build issues with the fdroidserver. In any case - it will get to F-Droid real-soon-now.
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by crankycoder1975 12y ago
Hi all! We cut a 1.0 release of the Mozilla Stumbler finally. Have at it. File the bugs. Complain about battery life. Help us make this thing not suck and build out a proper open location service.
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Mozilla Stumbler 1.0(play.google.com)
208 points by crankycoder1975 12y ago|155 comments
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by crankycoder1975 13y ago
we need Louis CK here: "You're in a BROWSER!"
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by crankycoder1975 13y ago
We needed performance as well as simplicity. We started by extending logstash, but our needs were more "we need a router" and logstash isn't meant to be a router. Statically linking the world isn't trivial. For our existing Python code base
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by crankycoder1975 13y ago
One of the driving motivations was simplicity for developers and get a reasonable out-of-the-box experience. This comes from a couple things. Go compiles to a single static library so you don't have to worry about having dozens of "the righ
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Introducing Heka(blog.mozilla.org)
299 points by crankycoder1975 13y ago|57 comments