Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
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Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#2I also found https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vjxj/anomaly-6-six-special... (March 2021).
Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#3The wikipedia article seems to spell it all out concisely:
> "The company purchases cell phone location data from advertisers who in turn get the information from embedded software development kits (SDK) in commonly used phone applications. The publishers of apps frequently allow third parties to insert SDKs into their apps for a fee. Some of the apps have Anomaly Six’s own SDK embedded in them. This system often relies on disclosures in the complex terms of service that must be agreed to in order to use an application. Most apps' privacy policies do not disclose whether or not SDKs are embedded in their product."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly_Six
Okay, now we need a lawyer to find the explicit legal language in the terms of service agreements that give the necessary legal cover to the app manufacturer and distributor to install SDKs...
Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#4Google?
Clicks link
Oh, Anomaly 6 is the name of the company, not the sixth of some number of anomalies indicating possible spying.
Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#5I love how understated (or frankly clueless) these articles are. You should just assume that every mobile phone is reporting high accuracy (< 10m) location information at all times of the day, from tens to thousands of times a day, to a variety of aggregators. Essentially they are little snitches and we are all rats in a maze to their panopticon.
Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#6Something about this story (or rather; disconnected collection of
claims) doesn't read well. Can't put my finger on it though. Maybe
it's just not great writing.
Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#7I love how understated (or frankly clueless) these articles are. You should just assume that every mobile phone is reporting high accuracy (< 10m) location information at all times of the day, from tens to thousands of times a day, to a variety of aggregators. Essentially they are little snitches and we are all rats in a maze to their panopticon.
There's a significant difference from an advertiser learning a little too much about me to the government tracking my every move. Of course, there are risks, but it is beyond the pale for our own governments to be utilizing these tools in this way and this article puts the focus squarely on this part of the problem.
In any case.. I wonder if the solution to all of this is just noise. Our devices should be generating 10x the fake data as it does real data, then we can just salt the information landscape for good and make it useless to try to capture value here.
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#8Please bear in mind that the site this is on appears to be a Russian propaganda machine. This story may have some validity to it - I haven't investigated yet - but a quick browse of the front page consists primarily of anti-ukraine conspiracy pages.
Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#9I love how understated (or frankly clueless) these articles are. You should just assume that every mobile phone is reporting high accuracy (< 10m) location information at all times of the day, from tens to thousands of times a day, to a variety of aggregators. Essentially they are little snitches and we are all rats in a maze to their panopticon.
There's a significant difference from an advertiser learning a little too much about me to the government tracking my every move. Of course, there are risks, but it is beyond the pale for our own governments to be utilizing these tools in this way and this article puts the focus squarely on this part of the problem. In any case.. I wonder if the solution to all of this is just noise. Our devices should be generating…
I used to think privacy was the way, but it's proving more and more impossible to do. I know think that this is the way, begin to generate fake data tons of it all the time, the best defense is a good offense, if we can decrease the signal to noise ratio sufficiently then they can no longer use it, and no I don't have any moral qualms with it because they started the war.
They are the ones who have caused only 1 in 30 emails I receive to be actually something I wanted or find use in. They are the ones who made it so I can no longer use a phone as a communication device within anyone I don't already know. They are the ones sending me random texts and losing my data all over the place, the only way to solve this is to burn back, the politicians won't help they're in bed with all these actors.
If you want a good place to start this add on https://adnauseam.io/ Ad Nasueam is a good place to start, it functions as an add blocker but it also launches a click on every single add that pops up anywhere. If anyone has any other false data generating sources it would be much appreciated.
We need to fight back.
EDIT: Forgot another one http://trackmenot.io/ Track Me Not, it issues random queries to search engines to obsfucate data, when you combine it with adnaseum it is a pretty little counterintel tool.
Re: Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
#10I love how understated (or frankly clueless) these articles are. You should just assume that every mobile phone is reporting high accuracy (< 10m) location information at all times of the day, from tens to thousands of times a day, to a variety of aggregators. Essentially they are little snitches and we are all rats in a maze to their panopticon.
There's a significant difference from an advertiser learning a little too much about me to the government tracking my every move. Of course, there are risks, but it is beyond the pale for our own governments to be utilizing these tools in this way and this article puts the focus squarely on this part of the problem. In any case.. I wonder if the solution to all of this is just noise. Our devices should be generating…
Unfortunately due to the 3rd party doctrine most of it is a distinction without a difference. Do I feel the same way about an advertiser knowing my whereabouts all the time as I do the FBI or even local PD? No. But because the latter can legally purchase the information from the former my intuition is potentially wrong.