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A software bug is not on the same level as being violently sexually assaulted. You are part of a much larger problem.
Software bug? Do you really believe that this is software bug? It logs location many thousands of times every day and nobody noticed that?
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A software bug is not on the same level as being violently sexually assaulted. You are part of a much larger problem.
Software bug? Do you really believe that this is software bug? It logs location many thousands of times every day and nobody noticed that?
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Never attribute to malice what could also be attributed to incompetence. All we know is that it makes the location requests, it could just as well be attributed to sloppy programming.
Dunno. How can you inadvertently request location info when you're implementing a keyboard for Android?
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Never attribute to malice what could also be attributed to incompetence. All we know is that it makes the location requests, it could just as well be attributed to sloppy programming.
Dunno. How can you inadvertently request location info when you're implementing a keyboard for Android?
I'm not saying it's legit or required, but that's their explanation from the link there.
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Never attribute to malice what could also be attributed to incompetence. All we know is that it makes the location requests, it could just as well be attributed to sloppy programming.
Dunno. How can you inadvertently request location info when you're implementing a keyboard for Android?
Every time I see something like this come up, it really makes me wonder how many other apps out there are doing the same thing and getting away with it. Unless you root your phone and use something like the mentioned android firewall, or go whole-hog and install Cyanogenmod, what chance do you have to guard against this? I assume ios users are likely in the same boat, but with even less chance of recourse.
Edit: think about how this would play out if you were to go on an Apple or Ubuntu forum and someone said "here, run this executable on your laptop to get extra functionality from it. I cannot give you the source because it's secret. But trust me, my name is FunkBlade3000 and I have over 2,500 karma on this forum, so you know you can trust me." Even our grandparents now know not to do this, yet I see IT professionals happily rooting their phones this way.
Does this mean we can't even trust the input options on a phone now? After blocking this, does it also mean I'm now going to have to change every password I've ever typed on my device? FFS.
In fact, I don't think that we should trust our phones at all, not specifically but only including the input method.
The Nokia C2 I have floating around is starting to look interesting again. It has no idea where it is.