Re:Niantic Labs splitting from Google
by troymc on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @09:35PM
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The solution is to use other sources of location information in addition to GPS.
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Unless that source of information is not on the phone, it will have the same problem. And I'm not sure I want cell phone companies reporting in to external parties where my phone is.
Can't those other sources also be spoofed?
> Can't those other sources also be spoofed?
It's a lot harder to spoof say for example APs near you, signal strength to a cell tower, and/or IP geolocation - than a GPS signal.
If you can spoof all of that - you probably aren't interested in playing a game like ingress. You have your own more interesting game you play...