I used to work at Mozilla until recently and what you're talking about is nonsense. The telemetry data is handled extremely carefully. Any downstream use of that data is also carefully managed so that creating…
Ah, nevermind. I'll just read your emails. #ExGapperJokes
Does Bruce still want you guys to use Zorba for Compass?
Monitoring server logs is how we detected and implemented protection from a botnet scouring the database for SSID information.
We're going to put some more information there on why we don't publish wifi at this point. https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 In a nutshell though, we don't know how to do this yet without creating a privacy…
YES. We caught that bug just before release. :) https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/1137
Hey, we're happy to hear about privacy concerns and ways that these might be addressed. As for collecting your SSID information - devices are already storing SSIDs to do an active scan. If you're not happy that the…
I'm going to try getting an F-Droid build out today, but we've got some build issues with the fdroidserver. In any case - it will get to F-Droid real-soon-now.
Hi all! We cut a 1.0 release of the Mozilla Stumbler finally. Have at it. File the bugs. Complain about battery life. Help us make this thing not suck and build out a proper open location service.
we need Louis CK here: "You're in a BROWSER!"
We needed performance as well as simplicity. We started by extending logstash, but our needs were more "we need a router" and logstash isn't meant to be a router. Statically linking the world isn't trivial. For our…
One of the driving motivations was simplicity for developers and get a reasonable out-of-the-box experience. This comes from a couple things. Go compiles to a single static library so you don't have to worry about…
I used to work at Mozilla until recently and what you're talking about is nonsense. The telemetry data is handled extremely carefully. Any downstream use of that data is also carefully managed so that creating…
Ah, nevermind. I'll just read your emails. #ExGapperJokes
Does Bruce still want you guys to use Zorba for Compass?
Monitoring server logs is how we detected and implemented protection from a botnet scouring the database for SSID information.
We're going to put some more information there on why we don't publish wifi at this point. https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 In a nutshell though, we don't know how to do this yet without creating a privacy…
YES. We caught that bug just before release. :) https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/1137
Hey, we're happy to hear about privacy concerns and ways that these might be addressed. As for collecting your SSID information - devices are already storing SSIDs to do an active scan. If you're not happy that the…
I'm going to try getting an F-Droid build out today, but we've got some build issues with the fdroidserver. In any case - it will get to F-Droid real-soon-now.
Hi all! We cut a 1.0 release of the Mozilla Stumbler finally. Have at it. File the bugs. Complain about battery life. Help us make this thing not suck and build out a proper open location service.
we need Louis CK here: "You're in a BROWSER!"
We needed performance as well as simplicity. We started by extending logstash, but our needs were more "we need a router" and logstash isn't meant to be a router. Statically linking the world isn't trivial. For our…
One of the driving motivations was simplicity for developers and get a reasonable out-of-the-box experience. This comes from a couple things. Go compiles to a single static library so you don't have to worry about…