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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.'"
During Christmas I had to talk with one of my cousins for a while. He's really into using Apple products. He's got an iPhone, an iPad, and several MacBooks.
We got to talking about iPhones, and one thing he told me that he'd find really useful is the ability for his iPhone to tell him the penis dimensions of any other Apple user he meets at Starbucks. He said it'd save him a lot of time and effort. Instead of having to talk to these other men, to find out if they were interested in casual love-making and if their genitals were up to his standards, the iPhone would do most of the work for him. It'd present him a list of suitable candidates, and he could make his move.
He thought that it could be done using ad-hoc wireless networks between iPhones and iPads and all of the other devices. I don't know much about networking or phones or Apple products, but if he says it's possible then it probably is.