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.

   --

   Kelly John Rose
   Toronto, ON
   Phone: +1 647 638-4104
   Twitter: @kjrose
   Skype: [1]kjrose.pr
   Gtalk:[2]iam@kjro.se
   MSN:[3]msn@kjro.se
   Document contents are confidential between original recipients and
   sender.

References

   1. http://kjrose.pr/
   2. mailto:iam@kjro.se
   3. mailto:msn@kjro.se