The Internet - The first Worldwide Tool of Unification ("The End of History")

" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... " Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…5 - Integrity That May Surprise…

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, Global Unity,..... etc.)


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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Apple Explains iPhone Tracking, Promises Fix

iPhones track Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers, not users, Apple said in answering critics, while also promising to fixing a bug that kept too much data.

By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, April 27, 2011

Apple on Tuesday responded to the controversy surrounding its handling of location data on the iPhone and denied tracking iPhone users' whereabouts. The company attributed the volume of stored location data to a software bug, and committed to encrypting the data on iPhones while eliminating it from backups in a forthcoming software update.

Apple's explanation arrives following a letter of inquiry sent on Monday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The letter seeks an explanation of Apple's location data policies in light of press reports about the presence of location data on iPhones. While the initial report last week about the discovery of location data on iPhones was subsequently revealed to be old news in the forensics community, the issue has continued to fester in the absence of a clear and comprehensive response from Apple. A lawsuit accusing Apple of violating privacy and computer fraud laws through its location data practices was filed in Florida last week.

Apple accepts some blame for situation, stating in a note posted on its website on Wednesday that "the creators of this new technology (including Apple) have not provided enough education about these issues to date."

Disavowing any interest in tracking the locations of iPhones, Apple described its data gathering as an attempt to build a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers to hasten location calculations, which are useful in apps that utilize location services and in core phone functions.

"Calculating a phone's location using just GPS satellite data can take up to several minutes," Apple explained. "iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data to quickly find GPS satellites, and even triangulate its location using just Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data when GPS is not available (such as indoors or in basements)."

Although the location data stored on iPhones corresponds to hotspots and cell towers (some of which may be as many as 100 miles away from the iPhone user), rather than the geographic locations of iPhone users, many location records may still be closely aligned with the user's actual location at the time the data is recorded.

Apple said that when this data is transmitted to the company it is encrypted and anonymous. However, it acknowledged while the cache of hotspot and location data it is not encrypted, but instead is protected through obscurity, which is regarded in the security industry as a dubious security strategy. Nor is the iTunes backup of the cache encrypted, unless specified to be so by the user.

To remedy the situation, Apple has promised to release an iOS update in a few weeks that reduces the crowd-sourced database so that it stores seven days of data instead of a year's worth, stops backing up the database cache in iTunes, and deletes the cache when the Location Services option is disabled. In addition, the hotspot and cell tower database that resides on iPhones will be encrypted in the next major iOS release, which is likely to be several months from now.

Apple also said that it is collecting anonymous crowd-sourced traffic data in order to offer an improved traffic service to iPhone users in the coming years. Presently, iPhone users have access to Google-provided traffic data through the Maps application that comes pre-installed on every iPhone.

Since Apple and Google began viewing each other as competitors in August 2009, when then Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's board of directors, it has been widely assumed that Apple will eventually seek to revise or replace its software and services that depend on Google. Apple's acquisition of mapping companies Placebase and Poly9 have only strengthened such speculation.


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