Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Tracking Android phones is easy, says researcher



Assisted-GPS a boon for surveillance


To save time, battery life and processor cycles, smartphones don’t rely on “pure” GPS to fix their locations – they get help from location data in the mobile network. Research presented at Black Hat in Las Vegas last week cautions users that this represents a serious security vulnerability.…




via The Register - Networks

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/31/a_gps_hijack/

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