Everyone knows your location (News)

每个人都知道您的位置(新闻)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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2025-02-04

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Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Victor Shepelev draws on 25 years of coding to share seven things he now knows & Grant Slatton tells you how to write a good design document.
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  • Foreign I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, February 3,

  • 2025 Last week's freakout about deep seek subsided after people realized

  • that its 5.6 million dollar price tag was just the GPU cost of the pre training run

  • and the actual total cost is likely up in the billions where we'd expect it to be.

  • This week's freakout is all about the tariff induced trade war.

  • What will next week's freakout be?

  • Hang tight friends.

  • I'm sure the writers will come up with something.

  • Okay, let's get into this week's developer News worth your attention.

  • Everyone knows your location

  • after learning of a massive data leak that exposed 2,000 apps secretly collecting GLD geolocation data

  • without user consent,

  • Tim Sh looked into the list and found three apps that he has installed on his iPhone.

  • In that list.

  • That gave him an idea.

  • Could he track himself down externally?

  • As in to buy his geolocation data leaked by some application?

  • So he grabbed an old iPhone 11, restored it to factory defaults with a brand new Apple id,

  • set up Charles proxy to record all traffic coming in and out,

  • installed a single game name stack by Ketchapp and logged all of his findings.