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January 12th 2016, 12:05 AM
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millimeter
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Before you further comment that I have an inherent lack of knowledge in network security, and how it applies to mobile devices, perhaps you could answer 1 question.

It is clear that the average person wants the ability to use their GPS to know where they are and how to get to somewhere else, and they also want the ability to allow some other people to find them and some others to not be able to locate them. For this reason, GPS has been coded as a protected act and should not have access to requires explicit user permission, in both Android and IOS devices.

On these same devices, neither the accelerometer nor gyroscope are considered as restricted services, and both permit remote access to background services.

My question then, which is likely to yield more personal information, your physical location as reported by the GPS sensor, or the fingerprint scan potentially captured, simply swiping your tablet or phone, or even combining that with the accelerometer to measure decay rates to determine the order you tapped in various areas of the screen while typing in your password?

Perhaps a second question is worth asking. If "Near Field Communication" can be used to transfer downloaded music, do you believe that sound files are the only thing accessible?

I'm merely suggesting that the majority of your arguments against my comments on Mobile data, read like they are coming from the average phone/tablet owner and not someone who works in IT. While I suspect you do have a higher understanding than you let on, it isn't showing in your responses here.

14k4? That's lightning speed. My modem didn't do more than 1200/75.
O M G, you're "That Guy" who used to hit the Chat button on my buddies BBS, and I knew I had time to make toast while waiting for the first sentence to arrive.

Seriously though, it's cool meeting someone that may have actually had a Fidonet ID.