Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ...
by Xylakant on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:10PM
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It seems like much smaller news than what they pretend it is. If you open up the suspicious domain in a web browser, it does explain what it is, who it belongs to. It’s a download location for a GPS almanac, used in assisted GPS. See http://izatcloud.net/
The shocking news is that modern smartphones connect to a huge list of locations for various purposes. A large laundry list of providers can collect your ip addresses. But there’s little way around that. Every phone with a GPS chip will download that almanac from somewhere. Qualcomm uses Qualcomm. Broadcom will likely use Broadcom.
The shocking news is that modern smartphones connect to a huge list of locations for various purposes. A large laundry list of providers can collect your ip addresses. But there’s little way around that. Every phone with a GPS chip will download that almanac from somewhere. Qualcomm uses Qualcomm. Broadcom will likely use Broadcom.