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sapiosenses

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    Comment #47649523

    I think allowing any software installer to install a persistent/background process with root/admin privs (which is apparently how this works) is a major security problem since it e…

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    Comment #47649398

    Apparently it's using a rooted background process installed at software installation time. This whole practice needs to be exposed since it essentially gives any piece of software …

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    Comment #39803608

    SatStat is a handy free tool for understanding what is going on "under the hood". On the map page, the red "pin" and "circle" represent data originating from GPS. Blue color is dat…

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    Comment #39803551

    Yep. But it's academic at this point. The MLS data had been going stale for 2-3 years now, I stopped using it ~2 years ago because of how inaccurate it had become. If you're using …

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    Comment #39803478

    I think it was for products too (eg Qualcomm is currently doing a heavy push of their IoT products where Skyhook is a central piece) but I'd also like to know if the legal landscap…

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    Comment #39802924

    I struggle to understand how a company whose IP essentially amounts to using RF emitters as geolocation sources based on simultaneous correlation with GPS data and other known geol…