Geolocation > No Geolocation

[fredvries]

Update of my list of programs/phones that use geolocation.

Updated:
Disabling of geolocation/GPS for Samsung Galaxy. Solution now reflects Flock's change from Firefox to Chrome.

See here. 

[disPlay]

found a new one >>> big brother(s) can't be stopped
GSM mobile phone tracking system via the GPS-TRACK satellite network
http://www.themobiletracker.com/english/index.html

it's pretty old but is still a great gps track satellite network

[Hermite15]

found a new one >>> big brother(s) can't be stopped
GSM mobile phone tracking system via the GPS-TRACK satellite network
http://www.themobiletracker.com/english/index.html

it's pretty old but is still a great gps track satellite network

yeah, someone told me already that it was old, but I just found it, really operational, it just works.

[polonus]

Hi Logos,

The site you come up with has a bad reputation at WOT's, Site Advisor:
McAfee TrustedSource web reputation analysis found potential security risks with this site. Use with extreme caution.
Some say the site is a JOKE, some say it is a phishing site,
This site requests email and name and then pretends to do a search. Then admits its a spoof. Do not use this site,
Finjan secure browsing has no problem with it,

polonus

[Hermite15]

Hi Logos,

The site you come up with has a bad reputation at WOT's, Site Advisor:
McAfee TrustedSource web reputation analysis found potential security risks with this site. Use with extreme caution.
Some say the site is a JOKE, some say it is a phishing site,
This site requests email and name and then pretends to do a search. Then admits its a spoof. Do not use this site,
Finjan secure browsing has no problem with it,

polonus

hi,

yeah okay I didn't check the main point is a joke, that you can't just like that track a cell phone unless you're granted access through special administration privilege, cops or else. Where did you see the option to enter an email address? I just entered a random cell phone number and went through the whole processing joke

edit: yeah, the option to enter an email address appears once the joke process has ended, in order to send it to a friend. Honestly, hundreds of online sites use this method, including main medias, and as a rule I never use their mail interface

[bob3160]

Hi Logos,

The site you come up with has a bad reputation at WOT's, Site Advisor:
McAfee TrustedSource web reputation analysis found potential security risks with this site. Use with extreme caution.
Some say the site is a JOKE, some say it is a phishing site,
This site requests email and name and then pretends to do a search. Then admits its a spoof. Do not use this site,
Finjan secure browsing has no problem with it,

polonus

I personally would trust Finjan before I put any trust into the WOT ratings.  

[Hermite15]

yeah I agree definitely WOT is a joke...I got it as part of an add-on in Chrome, and I turned it off. It's really useless, based on users' reports, meaning that it depends on whether anyone bothered or didn't bother to report anything. WOT just doesn't lead to anything that can be interpreted as conclusive.

[Lisandro]

yeah I agree definitely WOT is a joke...I got it as part of an add-on in Chrome, and I turned it off. It's really useless, based on users' reports, meaning that it depends on whether anyone bothered or didn't bother to report anything. WOT just doesn't lead to anything that can be interpreted as conclusive.

+1

Did you come back home?

[Hermite15]

Did you come back home?

yes ...landed a few minutes ago, nice to post "normally" again, had to send messages in Morse to a friend when I was there, he was then posting for me here

[polonus]

Hi Logos,

First my apologies to fredvries. We do not want to go off-topic in his thread again, will we?. Well blame that link, we won't do it again. But as the issue popped up I address it here.
Then we return to good old geo-location, it is with us quite some time now since UMTS, because the last word has not been said about this subject and more and more aspects of this technique are brought in. Thinking of the fact that two major grocery chains in Holland are starting an experiment to ban normal currency altogether in 2011 (they will have one little point only where customers need not pay with a bank card and you can use normal currency, later this will also go) combined with geo-location tells me all developments are being brought in faster than I thought.

For conclusive link checking I also use: http://www.m86security.com/resources/url-analysis.asp (former finjan url checker)
It is also good to operate WOT and finjan alongside each other to see the discrepancies there.
Sometimes I have a look at jsunpack (for experts only, mind you let NoScript run all the time and RequestPolicy) and look up redirects in the malzilla browser (not for the meek either). WepaWet and the VT Scan current site add-on also is an option.
I had the DrWeb url checker as a browser add-on, but it does not scan deep enough and misses out a lot
It is a pity Scandoo has left us, it never returned as a free browser tool. Who acquired it? I think it is now commercialized as SearchAhead,
I do not use SiteAdvisor since it was acquired by McAfee.
Also use URLVoid and unmasked parasites or google diagnostics: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
are rather good, and this is as reliable as the sites scanned and the database: https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=x&x=16&y=10
But there still is an enormous amount of suspicious pages that will go under the radar anyway, re:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8956
Hope to catch them using the best scanner there is, called C.S. (Common Sense)  

Do not be paranoid, you do not need these browser rear windows, if you toggle NoScript and RequestPolicy and trust the avast shields, more protection, not necessary. The rest of the info is only good "after the fact" or as a general surfing guide and compass,


pol

[Coolmario88]

is Geolocation in Internet Explorer? 

[polonus]

Internet Explorer does not have a geolocation feature (yet).
But IE7 has geolocation support via Google gears
Read backgrounds here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Geolocation_API
The location is returned with a given accuracy depending on the best location information source available.
Geolocation is a Google driven issue: and is heavily influenced by Google Gears Geolocation API. In fact, Firefox’s Geolocation implementation[5] uses Google’s network location provider[6].
Google has sponsored the Mozilla browsers and of course wants something in return to be able to better profile you according to location, and then they think to freely use a Dutch proverb "Who has the young on their side, owns the future?
Re: http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/0016-plotting-your-location.php

polonus

[fredvries]

Update of my list of programs/phones that use geolocation.

Updated:
• Disabling of geolocation/GPS for Firefox.

See here. 

[fredvries]

Update of my list of programs/phones that use geolocation.

Added:
• Disabling of geolocation/GPS for HTC Desire and HTC Wildfire.

See here. 

[Asyn]

Updated:
• Disabling of geolocation/GPS for Firefox.

Do you have some background info on ‘geo.wifi.uri’...??
Please share..!!
asyn