Have you heard the US government say: "Yes, we spy on the whole internet including American civilians, including government leaders of friendly nations. Yes, we know it's against our own laws. Yes, we also engage in economic espionage."? I guess I missed that statement from Obama. Of course any government would deny any uncovered secret operation.

Also, have you thought about the scenario, that the Chinese government is actually NOT involved in this? Have you considered that all these reports from all these self-proclaimed security researchers, might be inaccurate or just wrong? Have you read these reports (I mean actual report, not the summaries in the press)? Would this report hold up in court as prove? And would the US government care whether it was wrong or inaccurate? Or would it benefit some (domestic) political agenda? Just asking questions. You should try it too.

Source?

I don't think you get it. This has nothing to do with your phone. It's the phone network that keeps track of where you are. Your phone does not need GPS. It just needs to be on. Now it seems that other people, besides your network operator, are able to query the network for your location by just knowing your phone number. And those people are not necessarily your friends.

Yes, my telco is supposed to know. But they should be the *only* ones to know. And it seems this is not the case. Far from it.

Actually, how do you get ss7 network access?

As a non-Andoid, non-iOS smartphone owner I'm not interested in any cool proprietary interface. No one should be interested in it.

Better support something like MirrorLink and connect use something like the CarBerry.

I think it's the other way around. The US Gov couldn't care less about shouting and screaming EU citizens. They do somewhat care about US voters/consumers maybe, hopefully. Unfortunately the only thing US citizens shout is: USA! USA!

I value comments on news sites and blogs. They provide reporters and writers are often wrong or one-sided. Comments provide corrections, additions and other viewpoints. Yes, sometimes they provide shit. Press page down.

I know I'm right anyway.

Not starting a flamewar. Both Google Maps and OSM have their place. But if I was an Indian, I would donate my time to OpenStreetMap so that everyone can profit from the data instead of just one American company.

Thank you Judge Anna Brown. Hopefully this ruling also applies to non-Americans.

Buy a pen, buy paper and write it down if you can't run your DNS, never heard of host files, are unaware that you can paste IP addresses in Excel or a text file. I'm not the designer of IPv6 but I agree with them: suck it up.

How do we manage this with phone numbers? We have someone call or text us, store the received number in our cell phone's phonebook, give it a descriptive name and we forget about the number. If only we had something like this for IP-addresses... Oh, we do! It's called DNS and works fine for both IPv4 and IPv6.

Can we now please stop whining people cannot remember 128 bits?

Ok, now try to run not 64512, but just 2 web servers that both must by accessible on port 80. Good luck with that.

Why would you want more than 640 KB RAM?

Anyway, you don't seem to understand IPv6 very well, as many people who are somehow against it. This discussion has been done many times already and I will not repeat it. You just keep your IPv4 and be happy with it. But let others have their IPv6.