Several companies routinely scan access point IDs and create maps of their physical locations. Most APs remain stationary, being in people's homes or businesses. This allows your phone to notice what AP IDs it sees and look up their physical location, letting the phone get a good idea of where it is even if no GPS is available.
GPS does not work better with WiFi enabled -- location identification does, by combining the GPS coordinates with the access point location information.
I don't think there's any such thing as 'secure' anymore, not for anything.
Anymore?
If you think of security as a binary proposition (either you have it or you don't), then nothing has ever been secure. All security falls somewhere on a continuum, and absolute security is an ideal that cannot ever be actually achieved.
The DHS has made it abundantly clear for years now that nobody should fly with anything that they can't afford to lose. Ship your phone and other critical things ahead via parcel service. If you must have a phone during your trip, get a burner just for that purpose.
So relax, it will be alright. Even if the analog jack disappears completely, it will take a while.
This is my hope. Removing the jack seem really premature, as there is no replacement for it that I know of that isn't inferior. If there was such a replacement available, I would have no objection.
So I'm hoping that either Apple's decision will not become that standard for non-Apply devices, or that will take so long that someone can come up with an alternative that is at least as good as the old jack.
expect to buy one in the next couple months (OK, I'm not all that serious about it yet). The 2 things I demand are a regular headphone jack, and an SDCC card slot. If a phone has both of those I go on to look at other features.
Yes, me too. I would also add that the ability to swap out batteries is still on my "must have" list, although that's becoming less of an issue as the years go by.
If this sort of wailing and gnashing of teeth happened every time - and was actually successful - we'd still be using 5.25-inch floppies, MFM/RLL drives, keyboards with "AT" connectors, EGA graphics, token-ring networking over coax, long-distance communications through DB-9/DB-25 serial ports limited to 56K, and so on.
The replacements for all of the things you mentioned were welcomed because all of those things became inadequate for the purpose. The replacements filled a real, genuine need.
Dropping the headphone jack isn't in that category at all.
My objection is that bluetooth headsets just suck. At least, I've never found a set at any price point that is good enough to use for listening to music.
Also the fear of telemetry being used to spy on users is overblown.
This misses the point. The point is that there's no way to stop it if you find it objectionable. If someone is collecting data on my against my will, they are spying on me. Whether or not they use that data for malicious purposes is irrelevant.
More and more software products add telemetry to be able to improve how their software works. It allows them to spend time improving the features users actually use and fixing their pain points. As a result they can build better products.
Yes, and in every case that they do this without informing the use and providing a means to stop it, they are behaving badly. That this is happening with increasing frequency is precisely why I started firewalling off all applications by default, so they can't send any data to the outside world.
I shouldn't have to treat applications like malware, but that's the world these people are creating.
Once I'm dead, one of two things will happen. I will either no longer exist and therefore wouldn't care about my privacy anymore, or I will live on in some mystical realm and wouldn't care about my corporeal privacy anymore.
Either way, privacy would be the last thing on my mind.
I have never been required to sign a HIPAA waiver. I have, however, always been required to sign an acknowledgement that I have read the HIPAA fact sheet.
Them knowing what you clicked and the failure attached to the series of action is hardly personal data that anybody truly cares to protect. Same goes for hardware specs.
Says you. I, along with many others, very much want to protect it.
If anything, most users would be happy to hand over that data to help their favored platform become more stable.
Perhaps so. There's an easy way to make all users happy: provide a way to turn off all telemetry. Why won't Microsoft do that?
I have yet to hear a case where this collection of data was detrimental to an individual.
This is irrelevant. It's my data, and I should be able to choose who I share it with and who I won't. Whether or not that data is sensitive according to others shouldn't factor into it.
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Nike is a major Olympic sponsor.
And, of course, history and all that.
The only history the modern Olympics and the ancient Greek Olympics share is the name.
They could also be held in place like NYC
Why do you hate NYC so much as to wish the Olympics on them?
I would never say that Microsoft doesn't have the right to make their OS as crappy as they possibly can.
By the same token, I reserve the right to let them know what I think of their design choices.
Most of the major ones, I think. I use Debian myself, and it includes an entire repository for non-free, proprietary drivers.
Every time I think Microsoft has been as shitty about Windows 10 as possible, it finds a way to be even shittier.
Yes, that's an excellent point.
Several companies routinely scan access point IDs and create maps of their physical locations. Most APs remain stationary, being in people's homes or businesses. This allows your phone to notice what AP IDs it sees and look up their physical location, letting the phone get a good idea of where it is even if no GPS is available.
GPS does not work better with WiFi enabled -- location identification does, by combining the GPS coordinates with the access point location information.
I don't think there's any such thing as 'secure' anymore, not for anything.
Anymore?
If you think of security as a binary proposition (either you have it or you don't), then nothing has ever been secure. All security falls somewhere on a continuum, and absolute security is an ideal that cannot ever be actually achieved.
If so, then it isn't even in the running for "most secure".
The DHS has made it abundantly clear for years now that nobody should fly with anything that they can't afford to lose. Ship your phone and other critical things ahead via parcel service. If you must have a phone during your trip, get a burner just for that purpose.
So relax, it will be alright. Even if the analog jack disappears completely, it will take a while.
This is my hope. Removing the jack seem really premature, as there is no replacement for it that I know of that isn't inferior. If there was such a replacement available, I would have no objection.
So I'm hoping that either Apple's decision will not become that standard for non-Apply devices, or that will take so long that someone can come up with an alternative that is at least as good as the old jack.
expect to buy one in the next couple months (OK, I'm not all that serious about it yet). The 2 things I demand are a regular headphone jack, and an SDCC card slot. If a phone has both of those I go on to look at other features.
Yes, me too. I would also add that the ability to swap out batteries is still on my "must have" list, although that's becoming less of an issue as the years go by.
If this sort of wailing and gnashing of teeth happened every time - and was actually successful - we'd still be using 5.25-inch floppies, MFM/RLL drives, keyboards with "AT" connectors, EGA graphics, token-ring networking over coax, long-distance communications through DB-9/DB-25 serial ports limited to 56K, and so on.
The replacements for all of the things you mentioned were welcomed because all of those things became inadequate for the purpose. The replacements filled a real, genuine need.
Dropping the headphone jack isn't in that category at all.
My objection is that bluetooth headsets just suck. At least, I've never found a set at any price point that is good enough to use for listening to music.
Some "unnecessary" code can be very necessary to improve human understanding of the code and maintainability. When I use it, that's why.
So he's arguing for something arguably worse than a backdoor, then?
You're using the email address provided by your ISP? I honestly didn't think anyone was still doing that.
Clearly, Verizon admires the boat anchor that is Yahoo and think they'd look great wearing it around their neck.
Also the fear of telemetry being used to spy on users is overblown.
This misses the point. The point is that there's no way to stop it if you find it objectionable. If someone is collecting data on my against my will, they are spying on me. Whether or not they use that data for malicious purposes is irrelevant.
More and more software products add telemetry to be able to improve how their software works. It allows them to spend time improving the features users actually use and fixing their pain points. As a result they can build better products.
Yes, and in every case that they do this without informing the use and providing a means to stop it, they are behaving badly. That this is happening with increasing frequency is precisely why I started firewalling off all applications by default, so they can't send any data to the outside world.
I shouldn't have to treat applications like malware, but that's the world these people are creating.
More than that, Microsoft freely admits that there is no way to turn off all telemetry. In other words, they freely admit it's a spy machine.
Once I'm dead, one of two things will happen. I will either no longer exist and therefore wouldn't care about my privacy anymore, or I will live on in some mystical realm and wouldn't care about my corporeal privacy anymore.
Either way, privacy would be the last thing on my mind.
I wish that I were nearly as confident of that as you.
I have never been required to sign a HIPAA waiver. I have, however, always been required to sign an acknowledgement that I have read the HIPAA fact sheet.
Them knowing what you clicked and the failure attached to the series of action is hardly personal data that anybody truly cares to protect. Same goes for hardware specs.
Says you. I, along with many others, very much want to protect it.
If anything, most users would be happy to hand over that data to help their favored platform become more stable.
Perhaps so. There's an easy way to make all users happy: provide a way to turn off all telemetry. Why won't Microsoft do that?
I have yet to hear a case where this collection of data was detrimental to an individual.
This is irrelevant. It's my data, and I should be able to choose who I share it with and who I won't. Whether or not that data is sensitive according to others shouldn't factor into it.