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[Dennis Fisher] New Attack Locates Web Users Via XSS, Google Data | threatpost: The security researcher who created the MySpace XSS worm in 2005 has developed a technique that enables an attacker to accurately locate a Web user with GPS coordinates, without using IP-based geolocation. In an example of the attack Kamkar published on his site, the attacker must first get the victim to visit a malicious Web site, which then exploits a cross-site scripting flaw in the victim's home router.

[Marthee's Tech News] 6 TECH PREDICTIONS THAT HELPED SHAPE 2009 AND 6 THAT MIGHT SHAPE 2010: With $100 million in uninformed financing, Twitter additionally got in to a merger game, shopping up Mixer Labs to accelerate a geolocation features. Look for this direction to go upon in 2010, with mobile as well as geolocation .

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[recommended2u.com] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27 | recommended2u.com: Android Forums http://bit.ly/56gOa3 #; Facebook Update Tool #230519 http://bit.ly/4u4yod #; Magellan GPS brings new version of Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone http://bit.ly/7ZITar #; Many Texas officeholders' Twitter accounts go silent after .... From NORAD Santa Tracker To Twitter: Santa Tracking For Christmas Eve 2009 http://bit.ly/7uj1O1 #; FOXNews.com - National Broadband Internet Plan Taking Shape http://bit.ly/5RtoOl #; Twitter Buys Startup To Help With Geolocation ...

[ReadWriteWeb] Illegal Immigration: There's an App for That: UPDATE: According to the Transborder Immigration Tool website, the application uses Spatial Data Systems and GPS "for simulation, surveillance, resource allocation, management of cooperative networks and pre-movement pattern modeling (such as the Virtual Hiker Algorithm) an algorithm that maps out a potential or suggested trail for real a hiker/or hikers to follow." In addition to allowing would-be illegal immigrants quick and simple access to map information, the application's creators hope it will "add an intelligent agent algorithm that would parse out the best routes and trails on that day and hour for immigrants to cross this vertiginous landscape as safely as possible."

[Feld Thoughts] The Z Axis: As airplanes start to have Internet access, the jetpack that NASA promised me as a kid arrives, and IP-based flying robots start to appear, altitude will emerge as an important part of geolocation.  Today, geolocation is still mostly just x and y data. 

[Games Alfresco] Best Selling Augmented Reality Games of 2009 « Games Alfresco: Take over real-world territory in your neighborhood with Turf Wars, the new GPS-enabled crime game for your iPhone and iPod Touch! Turf Wars is the massively multiplayer online game where you claim and defend real-world territory from other mobsters.

[freshnews.org - most clicked links] The Risks Digest Volume 25: Issue 16: The new law enforcement and national security concerns were prompted byOperation Cisco Raider, which has led to 15 criminal cases involvingcounterfeit products bought in part by military agencies, militarycontractors and electric power companies in the United States. Over thetwo-year operation, 36 search warrants have been executed, resulting in thediscovery of 3,500 counterfeit Cisco network components with an estimatedretail value of more than $3.5 million, the F.B.I.

[WEB HOSTING + BE WELL KNOWN OF PC] The process [How to Hack] By Kevin Orrey: Excellent website allowing DNS and AS lookups to be performed with a graphical display of the results with pointers, A, MX records and AS connectivity displayed.

[ReadWriteWeb] 2010 Predictions: Subject/topic/hobby specific ones which can take these Web 1.0 groups of online friends into the 2.0 world of social networking without being just a subset of a larger group like Facebook or Twitter. Or a site like Ning which offers more targeted social networks will grow in popularity once it controls spamming.

[Christophe Coenraets] Building the back-end of the Tour of California “Tour Tracker ...: For example, it aggregated the data at the server side for a configurable amount of time before publishing the consolidated data to the clients (sending two messages to clients for the same GPS device within a second wouldn’t make sense because it would probably not even move the dot on the map). However, since the design of the client application allowed you to zoom almost indefinitely, I eventually set up the gps.publish.delay parameter to three seconds to provide a smooth viewing experience.

[Tech Superb] Twitter to add your geo-location to your tweets - Tech Superb: However, with this new accurate and tweet-level location data, a user could switch to reading tweets from anyone in his neighborhood or city irrespective of whether he follows them or not. He will also perhaps be able to select to read tweets of any particular city or area once he knows about the latitude or longitude of that city or area, or perhaps Twitter will offer more user-friendly way to locate tweets from a particular city or area.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs: We show that if the approximate locations of an individual's home and workplace can both be deduced from a location trace, then the median size of the individual's anonymity set in the U.S. working population is 1, 21 and 34,980, for locations known at the granularity of a census block, census track and county respectively. The location data of people who live and work in different regions can be re-identified even more easily.

[도아의 세상사는 이야기] 도아 :: 오늘만 무료, 아이폰 어플 091225(88개): Instead of scrolling your message, QuickSign lets you break your message up into small pieces and then flash the pieces by tapping the screen. Touch and hold on the message display stop displaying messages and return to the entry and options screen.

[TechiPod.com] Tech iPod Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20: A few weeks ago, Woot opened up a new section of its site c”¦ http://ow.ly/16ap1g #; TechiPod New Track - Smaller Fingers Give Women Better Sense of Touch - BusinessWeek http://ow.ly/16anYa #; TechiPod New Track - HTML5 Visual Cheat ...

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