XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android
From: ithinkiam@gmail.com
Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 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.
I disagree. Just because a router moves doesn't mean a particular person
has moved . Or vice versa.
Trying to infer this kind of information is also not as trivial as Donald
claims.
In addition, in the above scenario, the tax authorities would have far
better information at their disposal on actual people rather than some
vague technical proxy. A MAC is not a person. Not yet at least ;)
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