Ah Ben... bringing me back to the days when i could blame Microsoft for 
_everything_.


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District


----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Scott
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To: NT System Admin Issues
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Sent: Tue, 02 Aug 2011
13:58:35 -0700
Subject: Who says MSFT can't compete with GOOG?


>   For a change, this week's "Giant company eroding our privacy with
> wifi data collection" comes not from Google, but Microsoft:
> 
> "Microsoft's Web map exposes phone, PC locations"
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20085028-281/microsofts-web-map-exposes-phone-pc-locations/
> 
>   Apparently it allowed near-real-time tracking of device locations on
> a map, so you could follow someone's handheld as it wandered around
> the city.
> 
>   Redmond quickly reduced the data exposure:
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20086489-281/microsoft-curbs-wi-fi-location-database/
> 
> -- Ben
> 
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