How do you suppose the phone company knows what cell you're in, so they can route calls to your phone? How do you suppose they get their E911 data?
As long as you have the thing powered on, the phone company know where you are. And if the police want to know, they won't go to your house, hack your computer, and read the log backup. They'll just go to the phone company with a subpoena.
This whole controversy was much ado about nothing. The only thing that was different was that the user had access to the data that "the man" had all along.
Yes because the only people who would be interested in this data are those that already posses a legal method of obtaining it...
...but I'd like to run some tests regarding these findings.
Mostly I'm curious about the state of these files on boot. Are they like their names suggest and simply caches of recent lookup results and empty on boot?
Change.org seems to think they are down because of the Amazon issues:
Uh oh.
The Internet is misbehaving
Change.org is currently unavailable due to a problem at our hosting provider, Amazon Web Services. You can follow Amazon's status here.
Ok so not really...
Overall things look nice. Only real complaint is that you removed the "Home" link from the footer. The static top/side bars overcame this missing link (and sucked) but now that is gone as well. Overall minor inconvenience that I now have to scroll to the top of the page to click on the logo.
PS: Sure I could click back but that's not always where I want to go...
Eight days after this encounter, on August 2nd, 1990, Iraq began the Gulf War by bombing Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait.
A move which was unanimously condemned by all major world powers; even Iraq's allies. Apparently being sick of war doesn't hold true when you are going to war against the people you owe money to.
Variables don't; constants aren't.