XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   In another thread, are defending Apple to the death, no matter what, by   
   arguing endlessly that, to them, MAC addresses are not identifiers.   
      
   I can't imagine anyone who could say that, who is intelligent.   
   It takes only a bit of imagination to see how dangerous they are.   
      
   Yet, it became clear to me the Apple trolls can't fathom how they're   
   dangerous because the Apple trolls fundamentally lack critical imagination.   
      
   For example, they can't even come up with a simple imagination where they   
   can't fathom that 'hiding' an SSID is different from appending "_nomap".   
      
   It's beyond their imagination that there even "could" be a difference!   
    a. Hiding is intended to prevent upload "to" Apple's servers   
    b. Opting out is intended to prevent storage "on" Apple's servers   
      
   That simple distinction is completely beyond the wildest imaginations of   
   Apple trolls, which is a critical flaw that I've recently identified.   
      
   Another example where Apple trolls completely lack the basic skills of   
   imagination is the scenario of how Apple's WPS database is dangerous.   
      
   They think a BSSID is just a number.   
   They think it's not a personal identifier.   
      
   But they can't imagine, in their wildest dreams, even this simple scenario:   
      
   1. A company collects BSSIDs (MACs) from Wi-Fi routers in a city.   
   2. Over time, they build a database:   
      a. MAC A -> seen at 123 Elm Street in 2022   
      b. MAC A -> seen at 456 Oak Avenue in 2023   
   3. From this, they infer the household at 123 Elm Street likely   
      moved to 456 Oak Avenue.   
      
   Now scale that up: Track migration patterns of entire neighborhoods.   
   Correlate MACs with census data, property records, or advertising IDs.   
      
   What was just public information becomes a de facto surveillance system,   
   without meaningful consent from the people being tracked.   
      
   In summary, I found a fundamental flaw in the brains of all Apple trolls.   
   They lack imagination.   
      
   They can't see anything that isn't black and white.   
   Nuance in detail, escapes them completely.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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