[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')ristina Parker loves taking pictures with her smart phone.

"I like to take a lot of photos of my dog and post them on twitter. Um, I think she's really cute. Also my friends and family," Parker said.

But one day she got an ominous tweet from the website IcanstalkU.com telling her they know where she lives.

"I thought it was a little scary," she said. "They were accurate to my location from my house. So my immediate response was, 'what happened, how do you know where I am?'"

Turns out, Parker's photos contained GPS information called "Geotags," embedded by her smart phone.

Every time she posted a photo online that she took with her phone, she was inadvertently giving out her whereabouts.

"And the location can be as accurate as plus/minus one meter, depending on the reception of the GPS signal of the device you're using," Gerald Friedland said.

Gerald Friedland of Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute co-authored a study on the privacy implications of geotagging. The findings: most people had no idea what they were posting online.

"There's enough information out there that you can actually track people and do potential harm to them," he said.

And that's exactly what Larry Pesce wants to warn people about. He co-founded IcanstalkU.com to alert people after he discovered a photo of his child revealed her location. And it can happen to others.

"For example, let's take a picture of your nice brand new 50 inch plasma TV at your house and you're now sharing the location of that TV and an hour later you're posting a photograph from a 711 and now we know that you're not home," Pesce said.

In addition to potential robberies, Pesce says geotagged photos open up the possibility of stalking and domestic violence. And you don't have to be some expert to get the information.

"Just about anybody that can operate a computer and do a few right clicks could find out someone's location," he said.

[careinke]

Nice post CID. Thanks for the reminder.

[Ludi]

I'm pretty sure anyone who really cared could find out where I live.

Fortunately, nobody cares.

[vision-master]

Remote ‘kill switch’ added to Intel’s newest processor


Lauded as a security feature, Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processor can be remotely disabled by a hardware/software combination known at Anti-Theft 3.0. Systems can be disabled over 3G networks, even while the OS is not running. Even when the hard drive is replaced, the critical systems will still be terminated.


http://www.infowars.com/remote-kill-swi ... processor/

[Keith_McClary]

I got a login on CNN news so I could comment on a particularly stupid article.
When I logged in I was presented with a list of 10 CNN articles I had viewed over the last few months.
I guess it was based on my IP address.

EDIT: Today's Dilbert.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he administration has also asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse its August ruling requiring court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to track their every move. The administration said Americans should expect no privacy “in the totality of his or her movements in public places.”

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')mericans should expect no privacy “in the totality of his or her movements in public places.”

[Oakley]

And you thought there would be no benefit when the electric grid collapses.

All sorts of strange consequences will result when we experience Richard Duncan's "Lights Out".

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he administration has also asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse its August ruling requiring court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to track their every move. The administration said Americans should expect no privacy “in the totality of his or her movements in public places.”