[ExI] chilling effects

[Kelly John Rose]

Thunderbird sends gps to google? That seems a bit odd considering they are
not connected.

On Saturday, October 26, 2013, James A. Donald wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>

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