Sony admits utter PSN failure: your personal data has been stolen

[jtemple]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

How would it verify places of employment or where you live? It's just showing the closest hotspots. There could be 100 employers near that hotspot.

Exactly. I just zoomed way in to where I work and live, and the points don't even come close. It doesn't even show the wifi I have at home, probably because it's secured.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by jtemple

Exactly. I just zoomed way in to where I work and live, and the points don't even come close. It doesn't even show the wifi I have at home, probably because it's secured.

Not everyone works in high density areas. This could easily track the movements of rural area individuals, especially those working in secure rural area employment positions where it would be very easy to monitor their habits.

You guys write too much of your privacy as "meaningless."

Since Apple has full control of the gps chip in the iphone since you have no way to turn it off in nonjailbroken form, it could easily build tracking into that as well.

[Avatard]

Meh, I played a couple of tours. Sucked. NCL.

[jtemple]

Accessing my phone via a trojan (which isn't happening - I'm not that stupid) will only tell you where my phone has been. Not when. It's not going to tell you when I'm out of town and I simply don't advertise that information except to the person that is watching my house while I'm gone. I have a house sitter anyway, my pets are pretty high maintenance and someone pretty much has to live here while I'm gone.

The info isn't just "lying about". If I encrypt my iPhone backups, you can't get into it on my computer. The trojan thing you mentioned just isn't going to happen to me. I know my way around computers all too well for that to even be a concern.

Again, there's no information in here other than points on a map. There's no date, no time, etc.

It would be easier to just case my house and figure out when I'm gone.

If you break in to my house and don't get mauled by dogs or shot, help yourself. It's only stuff. That's what homeowner's insurance is for.

Now, if you kick the door down while I'm home, that's an entirely different matter.

[Avatard]

If I have to point out a specific hypothetical in order for you to understand that this is too much information, and is being handled too cavalierly, in order for you to grasp that it's a security risk, then you're not a very sharp individual, able to think things through both backwards and forwards for your own protection.

Good luck. Yeah, you're waaaaay too sharp to get a trojan

[jtemple]

"Apple to fix location tracking bug in iOS 4.3.3; due out soon"

http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/02/apple-...-due-out-soon/

[Avatard]

It's a bug? I thought it was a "feature".

[derf]

Originally Posted by Avatard

It's a bug? I thought it was a "feature".

It was a feature, now its a bug because people are angry about it.

Actually they are just gonna rename the folder the location data is saved in, sources close to Apple insists that the folder will be named Cortney Love naked to keep people from actually looking in it. (J/K)

[AquaPython]

another 25 million accounts hacked.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_sony_hacker_attack

[dubbs]

Yup.. changed my CC# because of this.. I hate resetting the card everywhere..