[ExI] chilling effects

[staticsafe]

On 10/26/2013 16:24, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 2013-10-27 00:53, Kelly John Rose wrote:
>> Thunderbird sends gps to google? That seems a bit odd considering they
>> are not connected.�
>
> Evil state sponsored conspiracy.  The Cathedral. I thought everyone knew
> this.
>
> Thunderbird/tools/options/advanced/config editor/geo.enabled.
>
> Set to disabled.
>
> Who on this list has not done so?
>
> Of course people usually use Thunderbird on their main computer, which
> generally does not have a gps, but it usually has a wifi card.
> Thunderbird detects the nearest wifi networks .
>
> When google does street view for Google Earth, they also detect nearby
> wifi networks, so the data supplied by Thunderbird is matched against
> the data collected by google during street view surveys.
>
> Thus, whenever and wherever you use Thunderbird, google can supply the
> authorities with the closest street address to where you are using
> Thunderbird, and pictures taken from the street very close to that
> address.  Thus the authorities not only have your email, which being
> sent in the clear has no expectation of privacy, but also a picture of
> building that you are sitting in when sending the email.
>
>

What?

Citations please.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ says everything to the 
contrary.

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