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: kjrose.pr Gtalk: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Document contents are confidential between original recipients and sender.
