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   Message 55,757 of 55,960   
   Carlos E.R. to Chris   
   Re: Discussion: How to set up your mobil   
   10 Dec 25 00:13:08   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-08 08:54, Chris wrote:   
   > Marian  wrote:   
   >> Chris wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> They also report that 0.06% of all APs moved month to month. That's a   
   >>> really poor hit rate for "tracking" people.   
   >>   
   >> Any imaginative person can think of many instances where having a database   
   >> of all the people who moved and exact where from and to, is useful.   
   >   
   > Not people. WAPs.   
   >   
   >> Let's just say California wanted to find all the people who moved from   
   >> California to Florida who retired to ask them to pay their 401K taxes.   
   >>   
   >> It would be trivial, using Apple's WPS system, to find everyone in any   
   >> given county in Florida who recently moved there from California.   
   >   
   > Go on then. If it's so trivial, why don't you do it?   
   >   
   > Show us with step by step instructions how many *people* - as you claim -   
   > moved to FL from CA in the last six months.   
   >   
   > You have a week. If you can't then I call bullshit.   
   >   
   > I know what will happen, however. You won't even try. You will cry, shout   
   > and stomp your feet blaming everyone else apart from yourself. Just like a   
   > big baby.   
   >   
   > You'll not hear from me until next week so as to not direct you from this   
   > important privacy risk study.   
      
   His point is correct, though. An interested party could dig out this   
   information, even if Arlen doesn't come out with code to do it.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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