Rosie's Mega Mega Place All about the life of Rosie in the UK

famthegeek:

Researchers of University of Minnesota have found that phone towers are leaking location information that can be used to track a mobile phone’s exact location. The most interesting thing is to exploit this vulnerability you need not to purchase any kind of hardware gadget only a laptop and a mobile phone is more than sufficient to do that. “Anybody can set up this particular apparatus to be able to listen to broadcast messages from the towers,” Kune said. “They don’t need any special cooperation from the service provider, don’t need to grab any information from the service provider, don’t need to connect to the network, they just have to listen to what the cell towers are broadcasting.” 

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Oh snap!

(Source: voiceofgreyhat.com)

j0ejack:

In mid November, I upgraded my aging Nokia E72 to the new Nokia Windows-based Lumia 800.  At the time, I couldn’t find many reviews of the phone that weren’t pretty superficial copy and paste jobs of the press release or spec sheet.  I also couldn’t find any reviews from the point of view of people like me - upgraders from previous Nokia smartphones.  The Nokia loyalists that presumably are the reason that Nokia keeps going and hasn’t sold its factories for scrap metal and land value.  Even we realised that Symbian had gone to the dogs.  We are the brand value that Nokia still has.  So I thought I’d note down my experiences.

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nipplesxoxo:

It’s so pretty and cool.~

(Source: amizzled)