On 2013-10-26 06:35, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Just ask David
Petraeus. At least humans know better than to spy on the boss, but the
software can't tell the president apart from another suspiciously
well-connected person who is meeting with shady people.
By default, Android, Thunderbird and Mozilla report your geographic location to Google, using gps if available, nearest wifi networks otherwise.
This appears to have enabled google's supercomputer, the planet's most powerful AI, to detect that David Petraeus was overnighting where he should not.
The official story being that this non standard overnighting raised a flag that his equipment might have been stolen, hence the need to report to friends of Obama. Yeah, right.
I wonder if the rape charges against Julian Assange had a similar origin - did one of his numerous groupies spontaneously file false rape charges on her own initiative on discovering that other people in her circle were also having sex with Assange, or was she put up to it by people seeking to extradite Julian Assange, who proceeded to track who was sharing his bed.
I would expect that Julian Assange would assiduously turn off the tracking, but his playmates probably would not.