sapiosenses

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by sapiosenses 6mo ago
I think allowing any software installer to install a persistent/background process with root/admin privs (which is apparently how this works) is a major security problem since it essentially provides full access and control over a
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by sapiosenses 6mo ago
Apparently it's using a rooted background process installed at software installation time. This whole practice needs to be exposed since it essentially gives any piece of software complete control over the machine simply because the us
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by sapiosenses 3y ago
SatStat is a handy free tool for understanding what is going on "under the hood". On the map page, the red "pin" and "circle" represent data originating from GPS. Blue color is data originating from Network Loc
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by sapiosenses 3y ago
Yep. But it's academic at this point. The MLS data had been going stale for 2-3 years now, I stopped using it ~2 years ago because of how inaccurate it had become. If you're using microG GMSCore prior to 0.2.28.xxxx, you can use v
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by sapiosenses 3y ago
I think it was for products too (eg Qualcomm is currently doing a heavy push of their IoT products where Skyhook is a central piece) but I'd also like to know if the legal landscape changed after the acquisition. Especially considering
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by sapiosenses 3y ago
I struggle to understand how a company whose IP essentially amounts to using RF emitters as geolocation sources based on simultaneous correlation with GPS data and other known geolocated RF sources can amass apparently between 600 and 700 p