XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.privacy   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2024-05-29, Alan Browne  wrote:   
   > On 2024-05-29 18:17, Oscar Mayer wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 29 May 2024 15:01:42 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> Why would Apple design a system so incredibly horrific against   
   >>>> privacy?   
   >>>   
   >>> This is a real "nothing to see here" piece of nonsense.  Run for the   
   >>> hills!  Lock up your daughters!   
   >>   
   >> Are you saying that only because it was Apple who got caught?   
   >   
   > I'm saying it because it is a non issue and click bait at best.   
   >   
   >> Note that the problem isn't a new problems; what's new is that nobody   
   >> expected Apple, of all companies, of abusing everyone's privacy.   
   >   
   > This does not abuse privacy.  If you have a WiFi station broadcasting   
   > its B/SSID it is the antithesis of wanting privacy.   
      
   This strange idea that B/SSIDs are private is laughable. It's as if   
   these trolls have been hiding under rocks for the past few decades,   
   completely unaware that SSIDs are perfectly visible to anyone nearby.   
      
   > But of course, launch off the deep end into the panic a pearl   
   > clutching.   
      
   Yes, because: troll.   
      
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