Re: Apple changed their documentation at my request but it proves they don't care about privacy

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>But aggregators "can" track your posts across the Internet.
>>I post to many (many!) forums (web forums like XDA, Telegram, etc.)
> 
> "Ads You See Online Are Now Police Surveillance"
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq36YXrfyJE>
> "This video explores how advertising data became a powerful
> surveillance tool."
> 
> We're all doomed.

Hi Jeff,

I was wondering where you've been as you seem to have retired from the
Internet service business in recent years. I see you on the electronics
repair ng sometimes, but rarely here nowadays.

I still remember you proved how the router transmit power claims are
completely bogus, much as Apple's claims of battery efficiency were.

You, of all people, have my true identity as we've conversed a few times
over the years in email and on Usenet about our shared WISP experiences,
e.g., surfnet, ridge, etheric, hilltop, xfinity, et al., and you and I both
personally know most of the local operators, e.g., mike, loren, dave.

When I moved to the Santa Cruz Mountains from flatland in San Jose, I was
shocked there was no wired services, so people only had satellite or WISP.

I ended up inviting the local WISP team to serve me, for free, and as a
result, they serve the whole mountain as I have a repeater on my rooftop.

For years, I provided them with good business by setting up all my
neighbors with 2.4GHz radios and eventually the 5GHz rocket dishes.

At some point they started doing the installations themselves, so I no
longer had to log into every neighbor's router to update the firmware.

I want to THANK YOU for teaching me a LOT of what I know about Wi-Fi
networking, particularly you're pretty clear on how they lie about
decibels, where we have control over our transmit strength if we like.

You also taught me a lot about changing the BSSID, or not, which was well
before Google became big so it's fundamental knowledge you imparted to me.

I very much APPRECIATE all the help you've provided over the decades.
You haven't posted much lately, so I'm happy to know you're still around!

I think we're almost the same age, where I'm an octogenarian, while you're
most likely still a young kid in your 70's, as I recall (but maybe not).

In summary, I love the sagacious sharpness of your sarcasm, which is, like
Paul's, well honed by decades of experience finding things out the hard
way.

I'm HAPPY you're still around, as you, & maybe Jon, & perhaps Lawrence, &
maybe even Andy, are the only ones seemingly capable of understanding this
topic, where if we follow the breadcrumb of the BSSID:GPS pair, the way
Apple does it is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the way everyone else does it.

Apple claims "we care about your privacy"... except when they don't.
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