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EFF Offers an Introduction To Traitorware
theodp writes "The EFF's Eva Galperin offers a brief primer on Traitorware, devices that act behind your back to betray your privacy. 'Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location,' writes Galperin. 'Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a particularly creepy patent it has recently applied for into use, you can look forward to a day when your iPhone may record your voice, take a picture of your location, record your heartbeat, and send that information back to the mothership.' She concludes: 'EFF will be there to fight it [Traitorware]. We believe that your software and devices should not be a tool for gathering your personal data without your explicit consent.'"
Apple's iPhones know where you are when you use the maps and Apple can gather that data and use it to launch missiles at you! Adobe Photoshop can use the GPS data encoded into your photos and send that info to the CIA who will visit those places and scrawl lewd graffiti about your sexuality in all the nearby bathrooms, thus ruining your reputation in the locality and preventing you from being elected to political office!
This would be a lot more of a story if they actually cited some real misuse of data instead of just making claims about the evils that could hypothetically be committed using data that is otherwise kinda useful for the end user. I mean, seriously, it can collect biometric data for identification and store it if it fails as a way to identify who tried to use a device? How is that not something I want my devices to do to identify thieves and people trying to break the security of my systems? No, I don't want some company collecting biometric info on me and using it to track me for advertising or policing purposes, but unless there's actual evidence of such abuse, well it's not much of a story.
Now you know why so many people think Ron Paul is cool. They don't click on the links.
Sent from the iPad I found in your car.
Yep. Little by little people are getting wise to the Jews - again. When they've finally had enough and the shit hits the fan, as it repeatedly has throughout history, it'll all be "Oy vey! Why does this always happen to us?".