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Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway (timsh.org)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An amazing bit of digital detective work here. Seems like Linux mobile is your only off ramp from being exhaustively tracked

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but it won't be very accurate

Which they actually acknowledge in the blog post.

Kind of interesting that they're smart enough to understand how to sniff packets but not enough to understand that IP address = location.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Author noted:

As a quick note - location shared was not very precise (but still in the same postal index), I guess due to the fact that iPhone was connected to WiFi and had no SIM installed. If it was LTE, I bet the lat/lon would be much more precise.

And this was with location services off. How precise is a "postal index" in the author's country (presumably Spain) I wonder.