Comment Nice analysis of the problem (Score 1) 412
There's a great analysis of the problem by the always knowledgeable Danny MacPherson up on his blog at Arbor Networks.
There's a great analysis of the problem by the always knowledgeable Danny MacPherson up on his blog at Arbor Networks.
"... Who's to say that they're only gathering basic information about your router? Will they also gather whether it uses encryption or not? Will they grab other information as well? One thing is very clear: Skyhook Wireless isn't spending all this money just so it can support an AOL plug-in. Its ultimate goal, it says on its Web site, "is to expand the market for Location-Based Services (LBS) by making precise location information accessible to users and application providers." In other words, the data will be made available to the highest bidder.
It seems Google is shaking the ad market again."Pay-per-action advertising is a new pricing model that allows you to pay only for completed actions that you define, such as a lead, a sale, or a pageview, after a user has clicked on your ad on a publisher's site.
System going down in 5 minutes.