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You can't. Skyhook basically owns triangulation of rf. It's absurd.

I used to work at Mozilla until recently and what you're talking about is nonsense. The telemetry data is handled extremely carefully. Any downstream use of that data is also caref…

Ah, nevermind. I'll just read your emails. #ExGapperJokes

Does Bruce still want you guys to use Zorba for Compass?

Monitoring server logs is how we detected and implemented protection from a botnet scouring the database for SSID information.

We don't correlate your location data to ads. As a Canadian, that would actually be illegal and a violation of the Privacy Act. We never got authorization from individuals to do th…

We're going to put some more information there on why we don't publish wifi at this point. https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 In a nutshell though, we don't know how to …

YES. We caught that bug just before release. :) https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/1137

geo-fencing was extremely rarely used. I think we had single digit numbers of people who enabled the feature and understood what it meant. We decided to cut out geofencing because …

Hey, we're happy to hear about privacy concerns and ways that these might be addressed. As for collecting your SSID information - devices are already storing SSIDs to do an active …

I'm going to try getting an F-Droid build out today, but we've got some build issues with the fdroidserver. In any case - it will get to F-Droid real-soon-now.

Hi all! We cut a 1.0 release of the Mozilla Stumbler finally. Have at it. File the bugs. Complain about battery life. Help us make this thing not suck and build out a proper open l…

we need Louis CK here: "You're in a BROWSER!"

We needed performance as well as simplicity. We started by extending logstash, but our needs were more "we need a router" and logstash isn't meant to be a router. Statically linkin…

One of the driving motivations was simplicity for developers and get a reasonable out-of-the-box experience. This comes from a couple things. Go compiles to a single static library…

Mozilla Services announces Heka - a tool for high performance data gathering, analysis, monitoring, and reporting.