claus - 9:55 pm on Mar 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

Dang, it seems that since FF3.5 they've been upping the privacy infringing surveillance stuff with new geolocation IDs. Including WiFi sniffing:

Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain information about them including their SSID, MAC address, and signal strength.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Monitoring_WiFi_access_points
More: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation

Creepy!

No more Firefox updates for me if I can avoid it. That browser is now a closed book, I'm going to Opera.

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Edit: Tried making the links clickable, but I couldn't. I don't know why the URL tag doesn't work with HTTPS