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UCSD Students Tracking Their Friends' Locations

Posted by timothy on from the after-my-own-heart dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The location-tracking software, developed by a 15-year-old student at the university, draws upon triangulation technology. The PDAs figure out their locations by comparing the strength levels of signals traveling from the devices to various Wi-Fi antennas. No GPS Required. Article from Salon here..."

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  1. cool! by mike77 · · Score: 5, Funny
    It'll make playing that "assasin" game all the much more fun!

    Nothing is better than sneaking up behind your friends and shooting them w/ non lethal devices!

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  2. Should be... by da3dAlus · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the marco!-...-polo! department?

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  3. Easier in the UK by MartinG · · Score: 5, Funny

    No need to mess around with all that. With the new legislation you can just ask one of your mates that works at one of hundreds of pseude-randomly chosen places to hand over the phone location records that he suddenly has access to.

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  4. 35-year-olds by ceswiedler · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What 18- or 20-year-olds will do with these PDAs today is what 35-year-olds will be doing with them tomorrow."

    Don't you mean, "what 35-year-olds will be doing with them in 15 to 17 years?"