Why You Should Use Geolocation in Your React App’s Authentication Process – Source:hackread.com https://ciso2ciso.com/why-you-should-use-geolocation-in-your-react-apps-authentication-process-sourcehackread-com/ #1CyberSecurityNewsPost #CyberSecurityNews #cybersecurity #Geolocation #Developers #Technology #Hackread #React #app
Why You Should Use Geolocation in Your React App’s Authentication Process https://hackread.com/why-geolocation-react-apps-authentication-process/ #Cybersecurity #Geolocation #Technology #Developers #React #app
I don't have time to go geolocate this right at the second, but I bet someone might recognize this postcard (1940's) -- labeled "Unidentified Californian Hillside"
Looks like an estate/mansion/castle, consistent with Lockwod Valley/Frazier Park/Gorman/Lake Hughes/Leona Valley/Acton (perhaps farther South), IMHO.
@sbourne Hey, look, those building on the left still exists!
It looks like the two buildings in the middle, however (which were built over the river?) may have been removed. I suspect they were using the river to power machinery for the factory.
42.589250, -72.309531
Strava’s #geolocation causes yet another national security incident this week as bodyguards in #Sweden map their run performances for the world to admire.
This problem has happened before, with the #PerverseIncentives of the #gamification and #privacy permutations that violate the least-surprise #ux principle. Here’s how to turn these privacy leaks off: https://lifehacker.com/health/stravas-heatmap-privacy-problem
Heatmaps cause problems
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a44150917/report-strava-heatmap-privacy-loophole/ https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114830114766299781
Strava, Strava, Strava..
Då "fitness-appar" varit på tapeten "ganska länge" (t ex när amerikansk militärs närvaro kunde påvisas "där det inte skulle finnas någon"), hur f-n kan memot inte nått SÄPO? WTF?! Jag har säkert missat något...
Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel – Source: www.schneier.com https://ciso2ciso.com/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel-source-www-schneier-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SchneierOnSecurity #SchneieronSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #Uncategorized #surveillance #geolocation #drugtrade #privacy #Reports #fbi
Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtai... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel.html
Unidentified gunmen stormed a security compound in Surman, west of #Tripoli earlier this morning, targeting the Internal Security (intelligence) service unit, local police station, and passport investigations unit. One police deputy was killed, and a cruiser destroyed.
• Early signs suggest reactivation of dormant ISIS cells amid growing instability, clashes, and political turmoil in GNU-controlled western #Libya.
→#Geolocation: Coordinates: 32.755397,12.574952
>LEAKLIV:/
> IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user wants, speaks, or even understands. It fails all the time — VPNs, travel, people living abroad, countries with multiple official languages. This isn’t cleverness, it gives outright annoyance.
https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/
And that's like 99.99% of all websites with the language selector...
Taken just a few minutes ago. Where?
CW guesses or answers. Be as precise as possible.
This CBC article (a free ad for a company trying to make location information closed and proprietary) contains exactly one useful bit of information, in a quote from a U Waterloo prof:
"I'm also wondering why the 911 operator couldn't have just pinged their phone and then relayed the [latitude and longitude] to police?" he also said in an email to CBC News.
post- #Dobbs legal landscape…opened the door for #lawenforcement to exploit virtually any form of data—license plates, phone records, #geolocation data—to pursue individuals across state lines…more than 1,800 agencies have deployed ALPRs, but at least 4,000 agencies are able to run searches through some agencies in Flock's network…share the data freely with other agencies across the country, with little oversight, restriction, or even standards for accessing data.
India Post launches DIGIPIN – a 10-character digital address code for accurate geolocation, improving deliveries and emergency services, especially in remote areas. Generate yours at https://dac.indiapost.gov.in.
I guess this is what happens when Google Maps uses adjacent tiles taken at very different times of the year, although I cannot say I have ever noticed it before.
When AI Can Geolocate a Photo, Is There Any Hope for Vacation Privacy? https://petapixel.com/2025/06/12/when-ai-can-geolocate-a-photo-is-there-any-hope-for-vacation-privacy/ #geolocation #Technology #geolocate #Culture #Opinion #chatgpt #opinion #openai #vox #ai #o3
Nobody even tried?
This is a super easy geolocation. (Look at the unique architecture and the storefront advertising.)
You were at....
>Barcelona's Passeig de Gracia.
41.3912420, 2.1654850
beaconDB - public domain wireless #geolocation database - * ethically sourced: opt-in only data collection
* privacy friendly: published information is obfuscated to protect transmitters and contributors
* abuse resistant: updating existing data requires information only available in physical range of a beacon
https://beacondb.net/
#eos #privacy #android
via https://magicfab.ca/liens
Yes, this is an actual #FridayQuiz!
Can you provide the exact #geolocation?
Reply to all to collaborate
Reply just to me with an answer
Back up your answer with proof
#osint #quiztime