Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:41:41
Message-Id: 21028731-D274-40DB-80B7-DCD175FB74A6@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox by Paul Hartman
1 On 23 Apr 2010, at 16:42, Paul Hartman wrote:
2
3 > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Hartman
4 > <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >> What if the Google Street View vans, in addition to taking
6 >> photographs, were also scanning for wifi signals and recording their
7 >> location? That would give them an impressive database of wifi
8 >> "hotspots".
9 >
10 > Hey, it looks like I may have been onto something :)
11 >
12 > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/
13
14 Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar must
15 be reading this list.
16
17 Is he a Gentoo user, or is it actually that his department is snooping
18 on us?
19
20 Stroller.