Tag Archives: location

privacy and geolocation

By dougt | Published: February 6, 2009
google released latitude and privacy international warns us about a major security flaw. …second party can gain physical access to a user’s phone and enables Latitude without the owner’s knowledge… if someone has physical access to your phone, they can do whatever they want without your knowledge. I am just not sure how this is [...]
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Firefox 3.0+Geode != Firefox 3.1 Beta 1

By dougt | Published: October 15, 2008
What Chris Said. Unfortunately, this was somewhat confusing.  The good thing out of all of this has been the focus.  Teasing out the feature into an addon prior to the release of a dot release did bring lots of discussions about geolocation that we probably would not have gotten if it was “just part of [...]
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Fuzzing a geolocation

By dougt | Published: October 14, 2008
One of the features that we would like to support in Firefox, is the ability to “fuzz” your geolocation. The use case is pretty clear — you want to be able to share your exact location with a mapping application for turn by turn directions, but rather not expose that much information when you simply [...]
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