Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing.

On 12/2/2024 12:08 PM, Andrew wrote:

AJL wrote on Mon, 2 Dec 2024 18:13:34 -0000 (UTC) :

How many people with plumbing repairs hire a plumber to do the
dirty work?

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Me. But all the work is done safely and legally.

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Rest assured, living in the boonies myself, I do all my well pump
and septic work,

City water here. City sewer here. Been in this house 24 years. No
problems (yet).

I take care of my own pool,

Three HOA pools here. No maintenance for me...

I cut down trees to burn for firewood myself,

Kill trees to pollute the atmosphere? Shame.

I trench for my (off-grid) guerrilla solar setup,

No solar here. Shame on me. But then my electricity comes from the
nuclear plant 30 miles away so maybe no shame on me??

I do my own electrical work, and plumbing repairs,

No electrical problems yet but I do call the plumber from time to time.

I refill my carbon dioxide sodastream canisters at home, I refill my
 one pound propane tanks from my 20 pounders which themselves are
filled from my thousand-gallon propane tank,

Nothing like that here.

I refill the vehicles with gasoline myself at home, my cars are 30
years old and I do all the maintenance & repairs, including changing
 the tires when they're worn and balancing them at home, etc.

Love those gas stations down the street. My cars a year old now so all
repairs are warranty.

But my point was that the fact you "can" be tracked is more important
than if the person who wants to track you "knows how" to do it

Of course I can be tracked. I can't think of anyone who would want to
track me though. It would be very boring for them...

- since they can always hire someone to do that dirty work for them.

I suppose. Sounds like a bit of paranoia thinking to me though.

If someone is going to track a spouse, I doubt they care if it's
legal or not, but I even doubt whether or not it's illegal if no
court order is involved. I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. Neither are
 you I presume. I suspect it's perfectly legal to "track a spouse" as
 long as you don't break a law (e.g., violating a court order) in
doing so.

Agreed. A court order is likely needed for a spouse. But hiring someone
to do the spouse tracking can likely be illegal.

The privacy hole is that you "can" be tracked. Not that you "are"
tracked, since you will likely never know if you're actually being
tracked.

Agreed. So can you. Go to the doctor? It's online. Pay taxes? It's
online. Use a credit card? It's online. Have a bank account? It's
online. Etc etc etc. All available to the computer bad guys (and office
personnel). And you'll probably never know they're (gasp) looking at it...

It's so easy to add a keylogger to any computing device, it's not
funny. Anyone with physical access can do anything to most
computers.

They'd have to break into my house to have access to my toys. If that
happens I suspect the toys would be gone, not key-logged. And unlike you
I keep all my home stuff locked (even my phone) with 5 digit pins so as to give me time to change the necessary passwords...